California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Braum, B289603, B289604 (Cal. App. 2020):
"The [Double Jeopardy] Clause protects only against the imposition of multiple criminal punishments for the same offense, [citations], and then only when such occurs in successive proceedings . . . . [] Whether a particular punishment is criminal or civil is, at least initially, a matter of statutory construction" and depends on: (1) "whether the legislature '. . . indicated, either expressly or impliedly a preference for one label or the other'" and (2) "'whether the statutory scheme was so punitive either in purpose or effect,' [citation], as to 'transform what was clearly intended as a civil remedy into a criminal penalty.'" (Hudson v. United States (1997) 522 U.S. 93, 99.)
3. Analysis
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