venue-manipulation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-5455 Tyrone Woolaston v. United States Second Circuit 2022-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights confidential-informant criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process government-conduct government-misconduct manufactured-venue venue venue-manipulation Whether manufactured venue is a valid criminal defense
18-240 Kirk Tang Yuk v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response Waived co-conspirator-testimony criminal-procedure criminal-venue due-process government-overreach jurisdiction prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment telephone-call-evidence venue venue-manipulation witness-location Whether a prosecutor can manufacture venue in a particular district solely by bringing a cooperating witness to a favored district and having the witn…
18-237 Gary Thomas and Felix Parrilla v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment civil-procedure conspiracy-venue constitutional constitutional-venue cooperating-witness criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-witness manufactured-venue prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment venue venue-determination venue-manipulation venue-provisions witness-cooperation Whether it is permissible under the venue provisions of the U.S. Constitution Article III, § 2, cl. 3; the Sixth Amendment; and Federal Rules of Crimi…