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Speedboat Jurisdiction

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.

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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