jeopardy laws. how likely is the justice department to pursue something like this? it would not be double jeopardy. the hate crime statute is a separate federal statute. as i said, it speaks to bodily injury because of race, as ben just pointed out, not only did the prosecution and the defense keep race out of the state trial, the judge ordered it out. she would not allow the words racial profiling, for example, to be used. they could only talk about profiling. much of the evidence that we know about that ben described in terms of mr. zimmerman s past conduct, as it relates to race, was not introduced into this case. so we d be talking about a different frame. and in fact, a different violation. and so it s hard to say at this point what the outcome of such an investigation would be. but there s certainly more than enough in this case to warrant a serious federal a sharp look at whether or not the hate crime statute could be invoked in this case, looking at all the