United States v. Jesus Felix-Gutierrez

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• holding that accessory-after-the-fact liability can attach extraterritorially if the underlying statute was intended to reach extraterritorially, but international law jurisdictional limits still apply
• concluding that the extraterritorial application of 18 U.S.C. § 3, which prohibits being an accessory 52 after the fact of a crime, depends upon the predicate offense
• noting that congressional intent that penal statute apply extraterritorially may be express or implied
• applying Bowman to accessory after the fact to the murder of a DEA agent in Mexico
• applying territorial, protective, and passive personality principles “cumulatively” to find extraterritorial jurisdiction over a prosecution of a Mexican national for assisting in the kidnapping and murder of an American Drug Enforcement Agency agent in Mexico
• “We have inferred extraterritorial application of conspiracy statutes on the basis of a finding that the underlying substantive statutes reach extraterritorial offenses.”

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