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The Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects people from being prosecuted twice for the same offense. This is called the Double Jeopardy Clause.

So, no, the state should not be able to prosecute for a substantially similar crime.

However, if the state crime is not substantially similar to the federal crime, then its not considered double jeopardy. For example, person x breaks into a house and kills person y. The feds arrest person x for burglary. The state arrests the person for murder. These are considered two distinct crimes even though the person committed both of them essentially at the same time.

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