what is extradition?

Question

I'm not a nig law buff or anything, but I would just like to know

Answer 1

The request by one country to another to turn over a person accused of crime. Usually this is under a treaty, mostly bilateral treaties.

There are many international-law rules that apply. For one thing, once extradited the accused cannot be tried for any crime not mentioned in the extradition order ("doctrine of specialty). For another, the crime has to be against the law in both countries.

In the USA there is a principle known as "Ker-Frisbie" under which somone kidnapped from another country can still be tried. This was re-established in the Alvarez-Machain case in the Supreme Court.

But diplomatic and political pragmatism may say differently:
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"U.S. Army deserter Ronald Anderson, who was taken into custody by U.S. Customs agents on the Canadian side of the border last Saturday, returned to Canada last night.

"Anderson, 31, was released from the military stockade at Ft. Lewis, Wash., on orders from the State Department after the Canadian government requested his return yesterday."

Answer 2

Extradition is the official process by which one nation or state requests and obtains from another nation or state the surrender of a suspected or convicted criminal. As between nations, extradition is regulated by treaties. As between states or other political subdivisions on a domestic level, extradition is more accurately known as rendition.

There are two types of extradition treaties: list and dual criminality treaties. The most common and traditional is the list treaty, which contains a list of crimes for which a suspect will be extradited. Dual criminality treaties, used since the 1980s, generally allow for extradition of a criminal suspect if the punishment is more than one year imprisonment in both countries. Occasionally the amount of the time of the sentence agreed upon between the two countries is varied. Under both types of treaties, if the conduct is not a crime in either country then it will not be an extraditable offense.

Answer 3

Previous answerers are right as far as international extradition is concerned.. .
Now... local Extradition or US Extradition simply is the legal process of transporting a person from one jurisdiction to another...

Say you were arrested in NYC on a warrant that was issued from New Jersey. The police in NYC would go before a judge and ask for the judges permission to take you to New Jersey so you could be prosecuted for what you did there.

Answer 4

Extradition is the process of transferring a suspect from one jurisdiction (either state to state or country to country) to face trial in another. A suspect has the right to refuse to be moved over state or international borders. The jurisdiction that wants to prosecute him must then ask a court in the suspects current location to order him transferred. They must present a case of "probable cause" to the other court which spells out what the person is accused of doing and the reason why they think he did it.

Answer 5

When a country asks another to send back a particular person, demanded for matters of Law, then such sending back of the person to his home-country is called extradition process. Usually, it is possible if the two countries have had a prior protocal agreement for such co-operation.

Answer 6

When you are wanted in one state and they catch you in another, The long arm of the law reaches out and gets you! That's Extradition.

Answer 7

That's the legal process of getting a criminal from a foreign country that person has escaped to, either for trial or for the execution of this person's sentence.

surrender of a criminal to another authority: the handing over by a government of somebody accused of a crime in a different country for trial or punishment there

Answer 8

EXTRADITION MEANS BEING SENT TO ANOTHER JURISDICTION TO ANSWER LEGAL CHARGES.

Answer 9

Being taken away to your home country.

Answer 10

I truly don't know what that is.