Long-arm jurisdiction

The federal government, the FBI, has jurisdiction over crimes occurred at the sea, where the ship departs from or returns to a United States port, a United States citizen is involved.

There's something called the Long Arm Statute, and the Long Arm Statute permits uh the fbi to investigate crimes that occur on a on a ship that departs and returns to the united states there are a lot of overlocking jurisdictions here the government of panama if it had wanted to could come in and investigate this but of course they have no interest in doing that

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the state of florida has its own long arm statute so the state of florida was with the fbi when they were conducting their investigation and the state of florida could have prosecuted timothy hudson But they got together and they decided that it was better to have it tried in federal court.

And that's why this is in federal court instead of in Florida state court.

It's fascinating.