82 N.C. App. 299 - State v. Myers’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “Though the act committed is the same in both cases, the offense is not. In its legal signification, of course, an offense, or crime, is not merely a bad act of some kind, it is the violation of a law. All sovereign states, and it is fundamental to our system of government that the United States of America and the various states are separate, distinct sovereign states, have the power to enact laws and prosecute those who violate them; and it is no bar to a prosecution that the offender has already been punished for the same act by another sovereign. [Citations omitted.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 102 N.C. App. 466 - In re Cobb