Killen v. Epps

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• stating that subject-matter jurisdiction not implicated if indictment “alleges all of the statutory elements of a federal offense”
• finding that territorial nexus is not an element of an offense under the material support statute and need not be alleged in-the indictment
• stating that “[e]ven a defendant’s persuasive argument that the conduct set out in the indictment does not make out a violation of the charged statute does not implicate subject-matter jurisdiction”
• disavowing the term “jurisdictional nexus,” but explaining that due process requires a “territorial nexus”
• describing the “inquiry into whether an indictment charges a federal offense for the purposes of establishing subject-matter jurisdiction . . . [as] whether ‘the indictment alleges all of the statutory elements of a federal 2 18 U.S.C. § 922(g
• \[A]ppeals that call into question the government's authority to bring a prosecution or congressional authority to pass the statute in question are generally not jurisdictional.\ (internal quotation marks omitted)

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