Re: HIV and Murder ** ? for P'Dawg **

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On 4/06/06, Prairie Dawg wrote:
> What people have been charged with here is criminal
> transmission of HIV. Nobody's been charged with attempt
> murder for the same act.
> However, it is possible, and it wouldn't matter when the
> person died if their death was a proximate result of the bad
> conduct.
> I worked on a case where the basis for the appeal was the
> year and a day rule-LOL, the court took care of that right
> fast. It involved a boy who was severely beaten and who died
> four or five years later. The boyfriend had been convicted
> of attempt murder and was tried for murder when the boy died.
>

Pardon my ignorance, but can it be said that double-jeopardy
does not factor in here because these are two different crimes,
even though it involved the same individual?