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“Jury of [your] peers” is not a phrase that has legal significance in the US. The sixth amendment requires “an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed“.[0]

The indicting US Attorney will be have to show that some element of an alleged crime took place within the United States.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/sixth_amendment



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