Kentucky Law Journal Volume 98 | Issue 1 Article 4 2009 The urJ isdictional Entrapment Defense: An Analytic Framework for Claims of Manufactured Jurisdiction in Child Exploitation Prosecutions Leonid Feller University of Michigan Follow this and additional works at: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/klj Part of the Criminal Law Commons, and the Jurisdiction Commons Right click to open a feedback form in a new tab to let us know how this document benefits you. Recommended Citation Feller, Leonid (2009) "The urJ isdictional Entrapment Defense: An Analytic Framework for Claims of Manufactured Jurisdiction in Child Exploitation Prosecutions," Kentucky Law Journal: Vol. 98 : Iss. 1 , Article 4. Available at: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/klj/vol98/iss1/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at UKnowledge. It has been accepted for inclusion in Kentucky Law Journal by an authorized editor of UKnowledge. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The Jurisdictional Entrapment Defense: An Analytic Framework for Claims of Manufactured Jurisdiction in Child Exploitation Prosecutions LeonidFeller INTRODUCTION T HE federalization of criminal law, which began after the Civil War and has continued unabated to the present day, has resulted in offenses of historically local concern being placed squarely under national jurisdiction! Starting with the Post Office Act3 and the Sherman Act4 in the late nineteenth century, developing through the Mann Act,' the Lindbergh Act,6 and the National Firearms Act 7 in the early twentieth century, and accelerating in the Organized Crime Control Act' and the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act 9 of the 1970s,10 the federal i Lecturer, University of Michigan Law School, and Adjunct Professor, Wayne State University Law School.