Jim Henderson wrote:
> From my understanding, it works pretty much the same;

So the facts the trial judge decides are worth aren't overturnable? I guess 
I can see how that works, OK.

>> Rare that it goes all the way back to reversing the decision.
> 
> Yeah, in the case of Stella (to whom you refer here), the verdict wasn't 
> overturned, but the punitive damages awarded by the jury were, as I 
> understand it.  That's not a question of changing the verdict, though, 
> just the damages - and I was thinking criminal courts, in civil courts 
> the procedures are a bit different because the threshold isn't "beyond a 
> reasonable doubt", which is why you get things like OJ being acquitted of 
> murdering his wife, but being convicted in the wrongful death suit that 
> followed.

Right.

> I don't think it does, actually - I'll have to ask my wife what she was 
> told.

Hmmm. OK. Could be. :-)  I would think how soon you can be called back to a 
state trial after doing a federal trial would be up to the states, but maybe 
not.

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