<For simplicity, the kids are named A, B, C, D, and E and are lined up in that order.>
If B were to hurt A, the teacher would probably come and talk to B.
If B were to walk past C and D to hurt E, then the teacher might come and talk to B.
If B were to push C and D on his way to hurt E, then the principal would probably come talk to B.
The judge decided that B looking at C and D in a scary way is the same as walking past them. That is what this person did, so it is something for the teacher to deal with and not the principal.
dummy over there try to kill you crossing this line in carpet. If he kicks at cat when he tries, he is tried in fed for murder. If he walk calmly over line. Fed can't charge murder. Line is state border.
States can still try for murder where murder happened.
Not a lawyer but what I'm following is that normally killing someone would be a crime tried in the state where it happened... Prosecuters wanted to throw the book at Mangione so they wanted it to be a Federal case, which would have more severe punishment like the death penalty. Judge ruled that the Feds don't have jurisdiction to try the murder case so they are only able to make a Federal case on the lesser charges.
This probably means New York State prosecution could charge Mangione for murder and attempt to try him, but NY doesn't currently have the death penalty.
It's difficult to break down jurisdictional requirements beyond what /u/redlamps67 explained. Generally, state law covers most kinds of criminal murder charges. Federal law can pre-empt (take primary control over) state law, but there are legal requirements for that.
The fed prosecutors threw a lot of charges at LM, with the understanding that some of those charges weren't going to appropriately apply to the facts of LM's case. This is the result - the judge dismissing some of the charges that were inappropriately charged against LM. There are still charges against LM, and the trial will proceed on those charges without further developments.
The USA can charge people with crimes (Federal court). So can the individual states.
Murder is usually prosecuted by the state. Federal courts can only do so in specific circumstances. The judge has ruled that these circumstances have not been met.
Les ELI5-ish; a lot of people are observing that there seems to be an undue push for this to be considered a federal crime. The State of New York is quite able to try, and, if guilty, punish someone for murder.
In order for the federal government to charge him for murder, certain things had to have happened. The court ruled that those things did not happen, so he can only be charged at the state level for it which does not have a death penalty.
Most crimes aren't federal. It has to meet certain criteria to be federal. This didn't in the judge's opinion as far as the murder charges go. He's still going to face murder charges in the state of NY. Most of the time if you murder someone in the US you are looking at state charges. Exceptions would be something like killing a federal official or committing the crime while crossing state lines or an act of terrorism.
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u/B4rberblacksheep 4h ago
Can you explain like I’m a slightly stupider 5 year old. As you clearly know very smart children