Jesse posted on Mar. 1, 2011 at 6:17 PM
25 years in our time is not 25 years in Comic time so the statute wouldn't have run out yet. For most crimes in which the death penalty is the punishment there is usually no statute of limitation at all. If booster commited murder in the 21st century and there was still a record of it in the 25th, he could still be charged with the murder.
About the only thing that would account for Booster being tried twice would be Zero Hour, or an unethical prosecutor during the first trial if the second trial took place first (whoah, time travel headache).

 Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Mar. 1, 2011 at 7:13 PM
Booster wasn't tried in BGv1 #14, but subject to an automatic death penalty for stealing a time machine. Since Booster escaped from that sentence, there should be no trial because he is still subject to the original death penalty sentence. Unless that future trial didn't happen thanks to some timeline shenanigans erasing it from proper history.

Erin posted on Mar. 2, 2011 at 5:06 AM
If the sentence is an automatic death penalty then there wouldn't be a trial, not even for the other thefts. They certainly didn't want to waste time for it back in the first run.

Even if that death penalty was erased according to Skeets Booster would have one (another one?) for the information they stolen in the 25th century. This was mentioned when Booster returned from the future in IC.

 Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Mar. 2, 2011 at 5:58 PM
In INFINITE CRISIS #2, Skeets says that Booster was subject to a death penalty for their latest crime of theft of historical information. So Booster should be subject to 2 death penalties: 1 for the initial crime of stealing a Time Sphere, and 1 for the theft of the historical information leading to the activation of Blue Beetle III.

After escaping from the sentence for the first crime, Booster would not be granted a new trial for that crime: the death sentence would still be applicable. Any trial that took place in any jurisdiction after 2462 would be in addition to his already sentenced death penalty (which would be pretty pointless as even in the 25th century you can't kill a guy twice).

The more we know, the less sense it makes. To quote Basil Exposition, "I suggest you don't worry about those things and just enjoy yourself." Yes.

Morgenstern posted on Mar. 4, 2011 at 4:16 AM
But that was before Superboy punched reality! (I guess that excuse will still be used for a few more years.