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Court Could Judicially Notice That a Federal Prison Hospital Was Within the “Special Maritime and Territorial Jurisdiction” of the United States, Holds Eighth Circuit

Upholding the conviction of a federal prisoner for assaulting a fellow inmate, the Eighth Circuit holds in United States v. Love, No. 20-3386 (8th Cir. Dec. 14, 2021) that it did not violate the defendant’s Sixth Amendment rights for the court rather than the jury to find that the place of the assault was withinContinue reading “Court Could Judicially Notice That a Federal Prison Hospital Was Within the “Special Maritime and Territorial Jurisdiction” of the United States, Holds Eighth Circuit”