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U.S. v. Peterson, No. 96-1212, No. 339 (2nd Cir.) (100 F.3d 7) (November 4, 1996) (Judge Amalya Lyle Kearse)

The Court observed: "The dual sovereignty concept may yield, however, if one sovereign effectively controlled the other, for example if "the state prosecution was a sham and a cover for a federal prosecution, and thereby in essential fact another federal prosecution." Barktus v. Illinois, 359 U.S. 121, 124 (1959). In ...

 

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