State by state laws

[Empty_of_Clouds]

Can someone from the US explain to me in simple terms how it is possible to be charged for a crime under a law in one state when the crime is committed in a state where it is not a crime?

[dneal]

Hypothetically a prosecutor can charge anyone for anything, but it likely wouldn’t stand for reasons of jurisdiction, among others. Pragmatically, they can’t. I have no concerns with violating New York’s “high capacity” magazine ban here in Missouri.

Is there a specific example you’re referring to?

[Empty_of_Clouds]

There was a story on (I think) it was the Huff Post that said that if woman in a state where abortion is illegal travelled to a state where it was legal, she could be charged on return to her home state. If that's true I guess it applies to other state laws? But I don't know if that is true.

I think part of the reason I ask is because back a ways people crossed state lines to avoid paying their own state taxes on things like cigarettes, So, I'm kind of leaning toward the above not being true but don't know hence the question.

[dneal]

Texas passed a strange law kind of revolving aiding and abetting a person going to another state for an abortion, and it allows for a citizen to sue rather than the state prosecuting. It hasn't been tested in the courts yet.

HuffPost leans as left as Breitbart does right, and neither is a credible source on its own IMHO.