[Vision2020] Your Own Private Crime Spree

[Joan Opyr]

Close the loophole?  Are you nuts?!  That's why we live here!

Yours sincerely,
Auntie "Ma Barker" Establishment
www.auntie-establishment.com

On May 10, 2005, at 8:41 AM, David M. Budge wrote:

> Want to Commit a Crime?
> May 10th, 2005
>
> Go to Idaho.
>
> From the Social Science Research Network:
>
> 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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