Legally get away with murder

Article III of the Constitution requires federal criminal trials to be held in the state in which the crime was committed. And the Sixth Amendment entitles a federal criminal defendant to a trial by jurors living in the state and district where the crime was committed. But if someone committed a crime in the uninhabited Idaho portion of Yellowstone, it would be impossible to form a jury. And being federal land, the state would have no jurisdiction. Here is a clear constitutional provision enabling criminal immunity in 50 square miles of America’s oldest national park

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