[Vision2020] Your Own Private Crime Spree

[David M. Budge]

    Want to Commit a Crime? <http://davebudge.com/?p=370>

May 10th, 2005

Go to Idaho.

 From the Social Science Research Network 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=691642>:

    Abstract:
    This article argues that there is a 50-square-mile swath of Idaho in
    which one can commit felonies with impunity. This is because of the
    intersection of a poorly drafted statute with a clear but neglected
    constitutional provision: the Sixth Amendment's Vicinage Clause.
    Although lesser criminal charges and civil liability still loom, the
    remaining possibility of criminals going free over a needless
    technical failure by Congress is difficult to stomach. No criminal
    defendant has ever broached the subject, let alone faced the
    numerous (though unconvincing) counterarguments. This shows that
    vicinage is not taken seriously by lawyers or judges. Still,
    Congress should close the Idaho loophole, not pretend it does not exist.

So have at 'er. But you should download the paper. You'll need it for 
your defense.

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