However, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that such multiple prosecutions by separate sovereigns are not prohibited by the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
In any event, multiple prosecutions are likely, Mr. Carter said.
Multiple prosecutions, "such as Mary Jo White's June 2000 indictment-fest, were credited with destroying the very core of organized crime, forever, everywhere," he adds.
Since 2011, Rajab has faced multiple prosecutions and prison sentences for his activism.
Unlike his two predecessors, who systematically harassed the industry with confiscations, multiple prosecutions, fines, jail terms.
His attorneys, meanwhile, have used testimony from multiple prosecution witnesses to support his defense.
Yet they each faced multiple charges and prosecutions of such magnitude that they contributed to Swartz's death, according to his family.
After multiple investigations and two criminal prosecutions of Wilfred's owners for financial aid fraud, the school declared bankruptcy and closed, in the mid-1990s.
The development comes after The New York Times examined a dozen cases involving Mr. Scarcella and found disturbing patterns, including the detective's reliance on the same eyewitness, a crack-addicted prostitute, for multiple murder prosecutions and his delivery of confessions from suspects who later said they had told him nothing.
The Times discovered some alarming trends in Scarcella's career including, "his reliance on the same eyewitness, a crack-addicted prostitute, for multiple murder prosecutions and his delivery of confessions from suspects who later said they had told him nothing".
