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The Zone of Death is the 50-square-mile (130 km 2) area in the Idaho section of Yellowstone National Park in which, as a result of a reported loophole in the Constitution of the United States, a person may be able to theoretically avoid conviction for any major crime, up to and including murder.
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It's called, appropriately, the Yellowstone Murder Zone. Yellowstone is so large (roughly the size of Rhode Island) it technically includes part of three states -- Wyoming, Idaho and Montana.
Kalt's 2005 article "The Perfect Crime" argues that there is a legal loophole which renders it virtually impossible to hold a jury trial for a crime committed in the unpopulated, 50-square-mile (129.50 km 2) portion of Yellowstone National Park that lies in Idaho, because of the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution's Vicinage Clause.
The United States District Court for the District of Wyoming (in case citations, D. Wyo.) is the federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the state of Wyoming and those portions of Yellowstone National Park situated in Montana and Idaho; [1] it is the only federal court district that includes portions of more than one state, creating a possible "Zone of Death" where it would be ...
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Zone of Death may refer to Death zone, in mountaineering, a deadly altitude above 8,000 metres (26,000 ft) The Zone of Death, a lost French film from 1917; Zone of Death (Yellowstone), an anomalous legal zone in Yellowstone National Park
What has helped make Yellowstone such a cultural phenomenon is the show's commitment to taking risks — especially with its onscreen deaths. The hit series, which premiered on Paramount in 2018 ...