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WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Nearly nine years ago, Desmon Venn threw a single punch at a high school classmate and put him in a coma. Venn pleaded guilty to assault, spent two months in a boot camp and figured he had paid his debt to society. Last month, though, a new bill arrived. Prosecutors brought involuntary manslaughter charges against Venn after the victim finally died of his injuries without ever coming out of his coma. Venn, now 26, could get up to 15 years behind bars in the death of Zuhair Pattah. Venn's lawyer, Elbert Hatchett, said the charges violate Venn's constitutional protection against double jeopardy, or being prosecuted twice for the same crime. He also said the state's six-year window for filing an upgraded charge after such a crime has long since slammed shut. But an assistant Oakland County prosecutor who has handled the case from the beginning, said there is no double jeopardy because Pattah's death generated a new crime, which also rules out any statute-of-limitations argument...
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