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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
This sort of arrangement happens all over the place, only the "jurisdiction" (that's a weird way of referring to the way that prosecutors divide cases within their offices) turns on the type of conduct, not the characteristic of the defendant.
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Why does that seem weird? It's a very good, very concise statement of the basic legal principle under our system. We have gotten lazy and taken to using "jurisdicition" to mean the sovereign or some subset thereof. But, if fact, jurisdiction depends on the type of conduct, even that type of conduct is "all activity defined as criminal activity by the City of Baltimore, within the City of Baltimore, except as other wise provided."
