I visited the Yellowstone Zone of Death
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Tom Scott visits Yellowstone's 'Zone of Death', a 50-square-mile area in Idaho where a constitutional loophole could theoretically allow someone to commit a crime and escape prosecution due to the requirement for a jury from both the state and district.
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Answers: What is the Zone of Death in Yellowstone and how does it work?
- Yellowstone National Park's Zone of Death
- Sixth Amendment jury requirements
- Constitutional legal loopholes
- Federal district vs state jurisdiction
- Brian Kalt's legal research
What it concludes
- Congress gave all of Yellowstone Park to the federal district for Wyoming, despite small parts being in Idaho and Montana.
- The Sixth Amendment requires juries to be drawn from both the state and district where a crime was committed.
- The Zone of Death has a population of zero, meaning no jury can be formed to try a crime committed there.
- While committing a serious crime in the zone would theoretically prevent a jury trial, prosecutors could still pursue charges under other legal grounds or conspiracy laws, and Congress could easily fix the issue with a simple statute.
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