To calm our nerves after the heartbreaking video from the storage unit, I thought we could take comfort in the amazing US Constitution and some fun facts about multiple jurisdictions. Idaho can drag their butts back to Rexburg, then Arizona can have a crack at them and the Feds can chime in too. There is a wonderful example of the dual sovereignty principle on the NOLO site referenced below.
ARTICLE IV - Section 2 - The Extradition Clause:
A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.
If a crime occurs in two or more states, can each prosecute it?
Usually, any state in which an essential part of a crime has been committed can prosecute the offender. That means that authorities in
each affected state can prosecute a crime that stretches from one territory to another. The
double jeopardy prohibition doesn’t apply to separate “sovereigns,” meaning that this kind of multiple prosecution doesn’t run afoul of the Constitution. In fact, it’s at least theoretically possible that multiple states
and the federal government could prosecute a defendant for a single course of conduct. (The federal government would derive jurisdiction, for example, by the fact that (1) the Constitution allows it to regulate interstate commerce and (2) the crime crossed state lines.)
I can't wait.