U.S. v. LEWIS

No. 13-3173.

768 F.3d 1086 (2014)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Marcus Sabation LEWIS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

September 30, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John K. Henderson, Jr. , Assistant Federal Public Defender, Federal Public Defender's Office, Wichita, KS, for Appellant.

James A. Brown , Assistant United States Attorney ( Barry R. Grissom , United States Attorney, with him on the brief), United States Attorney's Office, Topeka, KS, for Appellee.

Before TYMKOVICH, BALDOCK, and BACHARACH, Circuit Judges.


TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge.

This venue case requires us to decide whether a convicted sex offender who violates 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a) when he (1) abandons his residence in one state, (2) moves from that state to another, and (3) knowingly fails to update his sex offender registration can be prosecuted in the state from which he departed. In other words, is venue proper in the departure district for the federal crime of knowingly failing to register as a sex offender...

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