In the US, there no statute of limitations for murder...that said, I think wyndhy's right, if this isn't double jeopardy, it's bumping right up against it...if the cop had died of his injuries before the trial, the attempted murder charges would have gone away, to be replaced by murder charges...so how does the justice system rationalize what is essentially trying the guy for the same crime?

I'm sure they'll come up with something here in the era of zero intelligence...

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