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Civil Punitive Damages On Top Of Criminal Punishment Is Not Double Punishment

Loaded on March 15, 2005 published in Prison Legal News March, 2005, page 37
Filed under: Double jeopardy (Hearings), Criminal Prosecution, Civil Procedure, Damages. Location: California.
Civil Punitive Damages On Top Of Criminal Punishment
Is Not Double Punishment

by John E. Dannenberg


The California Court of Appeals held that a drunk driver convicted of vehicular manslaughter was not constitutionally immune from the second punishment of punitive damages obtained in a subsequent civil suit by the decedent's ...

 

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