Earnie Hooks escaped arrest outside of Los Angeles after being stop at a DUI checkpoint. When the police ran his black Ferrari's license plate, the $250,000 sports car came up in the data base as stolen. He sped off and abandoned the car down the road. The car was taken to the impound but at 3 am the Ferrari was stolen again. Five days later Hooks was arrested driving the stolen Ferrari in his neighborhood. This report raises a few questions. First of all how did Hooks manage to steal the same Ferrari twice? Second, isn't Earnie protected by the Fifth Amendment which states that you can't be tried for the same crime twice, commonly known as right to play Jeopardy. Earnie was already attempted to be arrested for stealing the Ferrari once. How are the police able to arrest this man for the exact same crime five days later? Well as it turns out the loose language of the constitution gets taken advantage of by the court system. Courts consider each of these crimes as separate offences. I believe that the 5th Amendment was supposed to be interpreted differently. The formers of the constitution created the 5th amendment because if you let someone steal your Ferrari twice then you don't deserve to own the Ferrari any more. As for how Hooks was able to pull off the feat, we may never know as he has pleaded not guilty to the crimes. Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/09/10/hooks-ferrari-stolen-twice/15398271/ |