Keeling v. U.S. Dist. Court for the E. Dist. of Pa.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that venue is improper in the state of origin because “Nichols tells us that no criminal conduct even begins until she fails to register in [the destination state]”
• emphasizing that the defendants in that case maintained current registrations in their home States before leaving for different States
• holding in a 2-1 decision that venue was not proper in the district where the defendant departed
• finding venue in the departure jurisdiction improper in reliance on Nichols
• crime begins when “defendant set[s] out with the intent to cross a state line and commit the crime”
• crime begins when “defendant set[s] out with the intent to cross a state line and commit the crime”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).