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(1) The only significance to Mahoney's death is that the Minnesota Supreme Court mentions it to explain why Daly is being brought up on charges but not Mahoney, because Mahoney is beyond the reach of any earthly court.
(2) Your citation seems to confuse the concept of deouble jeopardy in criminal prosecutions with the review of a civil cases.
(3) Jerome Daly, nor any other litigant in a civil case, had no veto power to prevent the other side from seeking review in a higher court.
(4) A JP court, in Minnesota and elsewhere, is extremely limited in its authority and its authority would never extend to declaring invalid Acts of the US Congress (particularly Acts of Congress that other courts, with real judges, had already upheld).
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