>> steve, thank you very much. steve mentioned george zimmerman's legal battle is far from over, the justice department is considering civil rights charges against him. there's also possibility of a civil lawsuit from the martin family. joining me now, judge alex ferrare, host of judge alex. we watched it come down together last night. now this development with the doj. they had been evaluating it all along, but they're stepping up efforts now. the significance of this? >> there are two different judicial systems, the state and federal government. you don't have double jeopardy, as we know in rodney king, feds came in after the officers were acquitted of beating rodney king in state court. it wasn't double jeopardy in that case. the reason they were able to do it is because the civil rights statute, federal civil rights statute, section 1983, applies to people operating under color of law, and that would apply to police officers, persons that have that authority. there's no way that i see that applying in any way, shape or
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