Legal Question: Here's an odd one. Two friends go to the North Pole or to a deserted Pacific Island. They get into an argument, and one kills the other. Who, if anyone, has...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Here's an odd one. Two friends go to the North Pole or to a deserted Pacific Island. They get into an argument, and one kills the other. Who, if anyone, has jurisdiction to prosecute the killer? And no, I'm not planning a trip. : )

FreddB Loc: PA - Delaware County

Well, the North Pole is in Canada. But, since there are no witnesses…🙈🙉🙊

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

FreddB wrote:

Well, the North Pole is in Canada. But, since there are no witnesses…🙈🙉🙊

Ah, I didn't realize that. I wonder if there are areas that no country controls.

usnret Loc: Woodhull Il

I recall reading an article in an old National Geographic magazine saying that all of earths surfaces world-wide are indeed controlled by any number of different government entitys no matter the size of how remote it may be. I know a guy that knows a guy if that helps heh, heh,

nimbushopper Loc: Tampa, FL

jerryc41 wrote:

Ah, I didn't realize that. I wonder if there are areas that no country controls.

South pole!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

It looks like this could be the new area for armed conflict. Stupid humans!

Tensions over security, access, and environmental impacts in the Arctic are rising. While members of the Arctic Council (Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the United States) assert their established rights under new circumstances, an increasing number of non-Arctic states (including China, Korea, Japan, and Singapore) seek an active role in the region.

tomad Loc: North Carolina

jerryc41 wrote:

Here's an odd one. Two friends go to the North Pole or to a deserted Pacific Island. They get into an argument, and one kills the other. Who, if anyone, has jurisdiction to prosecute the killer? And no, I'm not planning a trip. : )

Here's a place right here is the U.S. ...

The Zone of Death is the 50-square-mile (129.50 km2) part of Yellowstone National Park in the U.S. state of Idaho in which, as a result of a purported loophole in the Constitution of the United States, a person could theoretically avoid conviction for any major crime, up to and including murder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_Death_(Yellowstone)

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

tomad wrote:

Here's a place right here is the U.S. ...

The Zone of Death is the 50-square-mile (129.50 km2) part of Yellowstone National Park in the U.S. state of Idaho in which, as a result of a purported loophole in the Constitution of the United States, a person could theoretically avoid conviction for any major crime, up to and including murder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_Death_(Yellowstone)

I'll file that away for when I need it.

ecobin Loc: Paoli, PA

Now we know why you've been buying all of those electrical gadgets and widgets and make it yourself stuff. Don't look now Jerry but the FBI might be following you & and looking through your trash, etc.

John Matthews Loc: Wasilla, Alaska

jerryc41 wrote:

Here's an odd one. Two friends go to the North Pole or to a deserted Pacific Island. They get into an argument, and one kills the other. Who, if anyone, has jurisdiction to prosecute the killer? And no, I'm not planning a trip. : )

Actually this incident did happen a number of years/decades ago at a remote station staffed by U.S. citizen’s on an island or ice flow in no nation’s territory. There was a killing and it was never prosecuted because no nation had jurisdiction. A law was passed by congress to rectify the issue to apply to U.S. citizens

Unfortunately I do not remember the whole event nor links to it

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

ecobin wrote:

Now we know why you've been buying all of those electrical gadgets and widgets and make it yourself stuff. Don't look now Jerry but the FBI might be following you & and looking through your trash, etc.

I burn all my trash - and that requires very temperatures for the metal items. I leave no evidence!

ecobin Loc: Paoli, PA

jerryc41 wrote:

I burn all my trash - and that requires very temperatures for the metal items. I leave no evidence!

Haha - Have a great 4th, Jerry!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

ecobin wrote:

Haha - Have a great 4th, Jerry!

Thanks! I hope I do.