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Alfonse D'Amato: “So if the crime was in North Carolina, the prisoner is in the Carolinas, the question is total lack of jurisdiction. So…”

On the recordJanuary 30, 1997
So if the crime was in North Carolina, the prisoner is in the Carolinas, the question is total lack of jurisdiction. So the thing that becomes shocking is what is to prevent this judge from issuing or entertaining a case, let us say, from Utah where a Utah judge and court had ruled; she is claiming that she could ask that judge to come here and to explain to her why the judge made that decision.
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Alfonse D'Amato

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Discussing jurisdiction issues related to court cases during a floor speech.

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