Abouammo v. United States · ¶15
To implement that constitutional rule—meaning, to decide where the crime was committed—courts generally must determine the location of the offense’s “essential conduct elements.” Rodriguez-Moreno, 526 U. S., at 280. A court, that is, “must initially identify the conduct constituting the offense”—the things a defendant must do to violate the statute at issue. Id., at 279. And then the court must ascertain the “location” of those “criminal acts”—the place where their “commission” occurred. Ibid.; see United States v. Anderson, 328 U. S. 699, 703 (1946) (“[T]he locus delicti must be determined” from “the location of the act or acts constituting” the “crime alleged”). Sometimes that inquiry points to a single district. See, e.g., Cabrales, 524 U. S., at 6–7. Sometimes it points to more than one, because the proscribed acts happen in multiple locations. See, e.g., Rodriguez-Moreno, 526 U.…Read in context ›
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