If a crime is committed against a american in a foreign land, can the person responsible be brought back to the United States and tried for the crime, and how would you go about doing this? Also, the person that committed the crime is not a american.
2006-12-05 03:54:24 · 3 answers · asked by airgame12 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
The crime was murder, kidnapping and rape. And the justice system there is trying to sweep it under the rug because of who this person is.
2006-12-05 04:05:11 · update #1
Usually a person is tried and convicted in the country where the crime was committed
2006-12-05 09:15:03 · answer #1 · answered by Carole 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you will be tried and convicted in that land. Now if your offense was commited in the U.S. and you fled to another country, depending on the offense, you could be extradited to the U.S. to face your charges (unles your in a non-extraditon country). But if you commit a crime and the penalty would be the death penalty, then flee to Canada, and you can stay there until the U.S. signs a small note to the Canadian Gov't., that the U.S. will not give you the death penalty and Canada, upon receiving their small note, will then turn you over.
2006-12-05 04:04:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
SORRY THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. HE DID NOT COMMIT THE CRIME ON AMERICAN SOIL SO THE AMERICAN PROSECUTORS WILL HAVE NO JURISDICTION IN THE MATTER. HE WILL HAVE TO BE DEALT WITH BY THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES. BEING THAT HE IS NOT AN AMERICAN CITIZEN COMPLICATES THINGS EVEN FURTHER. HE IS A CITIZEN OF A SOVEREIGN NATION WITH THEIR OWN LAWS. A CRIME HERE MIGHT NOT BE A CRIME THERE. THE SAME GOES IN REVERSE IF AN AMERICAN COMMITS A CRIME IN ANOTHER COUNTRY HE GETS DEALT WITH IN THAT COUNTRY.
2006-12-05 04:01:10 · answer #3 · answered by strike_eagle29 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋