California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Carpenter, 21 Cal.4th 1016, 90 Cal.Rptr.2d 607, 988 P.2d 531 (Cal. 1999):
5. Defendant does not specifically argue the separate prosecutions violated the prohibition against double jeopardy. That argument would also lack merit. "`[T]he murder of two persons, even by the same act, constitutes two offenses, for each of which a separate prosecution will lie, and ... a conviction or acquittal in one case does not bar a prosecution in the other.'" (People v. McLain, supra, 46 Cal.3d at pp. 120-121, 249 Cal.Rptr. 630, 757 P.2d 569, quoting People v. Majors (1884) 65 Cal. 138, 146-147, 3 P. 597.)
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