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· 2/14/1973

United States v. Alfred Erdos

Citations

  • 474 F.2d 157
  • 24 A.L.R. Fed. 356
  • 1973 U.S. App. LEXIS 11608

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 in the district ... where the defendant is first restrained of his liberty in connection with the offense charged.”
  • holding that subsection 7(3) grants territorial jurisdiction over the American embassy in Equatorial Guinea
  • holding that defendant was not in custody when plane to United States landed in Boston, hence venue did not lie in Massachusetts for overseas killing
  • ruling that embassies comprise part of \special territorial jurisdiction\ of United States
  • finding that limiting phrase in statute is independent of and does not modify two earlier phrases because the limiting phrase is separated from the first two by a comma and the disjunctive “or”
  • finding that limiting phrase in statute is independent of and does not modify two earlier phrases because the limiting phrase is separated from the first two by a comma and the disjunctive \or\

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Judges: Haynsworth, Craven, Widener

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