United States v. Milton Gatlin

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• holding that 18 U.S.C. § 7(3) does not apply extraterritorially to reach appellant’s offense of sexual abuse of a minor on a United States military installation in the Federal Republic of Germany
• explaining that the “Bowman rule” does not apply to crimes against private individuals
• \The notion that the United States could exercise exclusive legislative jurisdiction over lands in a foreign nation\ was \virtually inconceivable in 1790.\
• “The notion that the United States could exercise exclusive legislative jurisdiction over lands in a foreign nation” was “virtually inconceivable in 1790.”
• \The limitation of jurisdiction to lands over which the United States exercises 'exclusive' jurisdiction again makes plain that [the 1909 statute] did not mean to refer to land in foreign territory.\
• “[T]he limitation of jurisdiction to lands over which the United States exercises ‘exclusive’ jurisdiction again makes plain that [the 1909 statute] did not mean to refer to land in foreign territory.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).