In this file photo taken on Monday, Nov. 6, 2017, Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, leaves the federal courthouse in Washington. New York’s double jeopardy law doesn’t explicitly give state prosecutors a green light to bring charges when a defendant has received a federal pardon. It’s quirky, too, because a presidential pardon can’t waive state crimes. The state law, as it is currently written, doesn’t allow for that,” said former Manhattan prosecutor Rebecca Roiphe, now a professor at New York Law School. New York state Attorney General Letitia James said Tuesday that she’s reached agreements with legislative leaders on a bill revising the double jeopardy law.

Source: thestar March 13, 2019 21:03 UTC