Legal Opinion
United States v. Gabrion
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 14, 2008No. 02-1386, 02-1461, 02-1570PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ALICE M. BATCHELDER, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal from a federal criminal conviction, we are confronted with the precursory issue of whether a district court has subject matter jurisdiction over a criminal prosecution for murder — the federal statute for which predicates subject matter jurisdiction on the murder’s having been committed on certain federal property — when the property in question is within the national forest. The dispositive question is whether certain national forest land falls within the federal government’s territorial jurisdiction. Because, in this case, it does,…
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3Cited by22 opinions
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