United States v. Javier Vasquez-Velasco

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• holding that extraterritorial application of U.S. statute to violent crimes associated with drug trafficking was reasonable under international law
• concluding that joinder should be permitted where the common activity constitutes a substantial portion of proof of the joined charges
• noting that trial judge carefully instructed the jury that certain evidence should not be considered against one of the defendants
• noting that a defendant must show “clear, manifest, or undue prejudice” to justify reversal of the district court’s failure to sever (citation and quotation marks omitted)
• “Limiting the jurisdiction of drug smuggling statutes to activities that occur within the United States would severely undermine their scope and effective operation.”
• “Generally there is no constitutional bar to the extraterritorial application of United States penal laws.” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).