Smith v. United States (599 U.S. 236)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 15, 2023 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 599 U.S. 236 · 143 S. Ct. 1594
- Decided
- June 15, 2023
- Term
- October Term 2022
- Vote
- 9–0
- Majority author
- Justice Alito
- Issue area
- Criminal Procedure
- Disposition
- Affirmed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
PRELIMINARY PRINT Volume 599 U. S. Part 1 Pages 236–254 OFFICIAL REPORTS OF THE SUPREME COURT June 15, 2023 Page Proof Pending Publication REBECCA A. WOMELDORF reporter of decisions NOTICE: This preliminary print is subject to formal revision before the bound volume is published. Users are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C. 20543, pio@supremecourt.gov, of any typographical or other formal errors. Syllabus SMITH v. UNITED STATES certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the eleventh circuit No. 21–1576. Argued March 28, 2023—Decided June 15, 2023 Timothy Smith was indicted in the Northern District of Florida for theft of trade secrets from a website owned by StrikeLines. Before trial, Smith moved to dismiss the indictment for lack of venue, citing the Con- stitution's Venue Clause, Art. III, § 2, cl. 3, and its Vicinage Clause, Amdt. 6. Smith argued that trial in the Northern District of Florida was improper because he had accessed StrikeLines' website from his home in Mobile (in the Southern District of Alabama) and the servers storing StrikeLines' data were located in Orlando (in the Middle Dis- trict of Florida). The District Court concluded that factual disputes related to venue should be resolved by the jury and denied Smith's mo- tion to dismiss without prejudice. The jury found Smith guilty, and…
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