Everyone loves a good loophole.

What heist movie or true crime drama would be complete without the suspect getting away

from the authorities due to a gap in the law or a weird gray area that makes them untouchable?

It's the stuff at the center of so many good stories.

And it exists in real life, too.

To understand what I mean, we need to talk for a moment about a Michigan State University

law professor named Brian Colt.

About 20 years ago, he started to write an essay about the 6th Amendment of the US Constitution,

which, in simple terms, entitles people accused of a crime to a fair trial.

But some trials require a jury of peers who are pulled from the same district and state

that the crime was committed in.

And Colt began to wonder, are there any areas in the US that don't have enough people

to fill a jury?

Because if that were to happen, he suggested, no major crime committed there could legally

be punished.

Now it's all legal theory, but it certainly makes sense.

A zone on the map where crimes might be committed, but without residents who could be part of

a jury.

And it turns out there is one such location in America.

It's a 50 square mile slice of Idaho that's uninhabited for a very specific reason.

It's parts of Yellowstone National Park.

And it's ironic, I think, that a place of such natural beauty, of such purity and tranquility

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