United States v. Miller

SUSAN L. CARNEY, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal, we consider whether venue for a criminal prosecution may lie pur*610suant to 18 U.S.C. § 3238, the “high seas” venue statute, when certain essential offense conduct is committed outside of the jurisdiction of the United States, but other offense conduct is committed within. We answer that it may.

BACKGROUND

Defendant-Appellant Kenneth Miller (“Kenneth”),1 an Amish Mennonite minister and resident of Virginia, was convicted by a jury sitting in the United States District Court for the District of Vermont (William K. Sessions III, Judge) of one count of…