hurleyag said:

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Bunk Moreland said:

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Just now able to watch last night's episode and the opening scene sounded like a Ryan Bingham song (no vocals played).

Looked it up and sure enough, he wrote music for the show and makes appearances as an actor starting in ep 5

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Yep, Bingham, Uncle Lucius, and Whiskey Myers all in the same episode. Can't complain about the music on the show!

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Yellowstone National Park (YNP) was founded back in 1872, way before Montana, Wyoming and Idaho joined the Union between 1889 and 1890. YNP is almost entirely within Wyoming, but a slither of it reaches into those other two states, and the Idaho is where the danger, or opportunity, lies.

Brian C. Kalt, a law professor at the Michigan State University College of Law, had a good look at this region, and published a paper entitled "The Perfect Crime" back in 2005. In it, he explains that he's always wondered if there was a "forgotten constitutional provision, combined with an obscure statute, that together make it possible for people in the known to commit crimes with impunity."

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He points out that the District Court that oversees the legal comings and goings of YNP resides entirely within the state of Wyoming, despite those odd sections in Montana and Idaho. ...... this means that unlike anywhere else in the United States, the District of Wyoming includes land in other states.

Say you decided to murder someone in the Idaho section of the park. If you're caught, you'd be arrested and taken to Wyoming to be tried. The US Constitution, however, demands that any trial should be held in the state where the crime itself was committed, which in this case should be Idaho.

So you demand your Constitutional right to be tried back in Idaho, where they then take you. A local jury would be called up, but herein lies the next problem. Amendment VI states that the "impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed" is required but in this case, the state is Idaho but the district is Wyoming.

That means that the only people available for the jury must live in that Idaho section of YNP in the Wyoming District. This is unfortunate, because absolutely no-one lives there; as it's federal land, no-one's allowed to either.

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