After 10 years I’d expect plenty of difference to have built up, making it not so different (judicially) from a regular case. One thing you might still say is that it’s reasonable to hold the other instance as prone to commit murder too, and perhaps that would justify surveillance on him, or something..
Suppose you got ‘cloned to the atom’. 10 years later, one of you commits a crime. Who is punished? Who should be?
After 10 years I’d expect plenty of difference to have built up, making it not so different (judicially) from a regular case. One thing you might still say is that it’s reasonable to hold the other instance as prone to commit murder too, and perhaps that would justify surveillance on him, or something..