• FaceDeer
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      65 months ago

      They are when you’re holding an actual trial. You can’t try both criminal and civil charges simultaneously, the two processes are quite different from each other.

      • @FireTower@lemmy.world
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        15 months ago

        Even then they aren’t mutually exclusive. It just isn’t dispositive of the other.

        In a civil trial after being found guilty of a crime you couldn’t reasonably argue that you shouldn’t be found civilly liable because of that.