Speedboat Jurisdiction

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Second Circuit <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Speedboat.pdf"><strong>vacated</strong></a> defendants’ guilty pleas to possessing cocaine and conspiring to distribute it, because the prosecution failed to prove that their speedboat – stopped in international waters off the coast of Central America – was subject to U.S. jurisdiction. </span>

NEW YORK – The Second Circuit vacated defendants’ guilty pleas to possessing cocaine and conspiring to distribute it, because the prosecution failed to prove that their speedboat – stopped in international waters off the coast of Central America – was subject to U.S. jurisdiction.

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