why do some states extradite and some don't?

Question

my uncle was pulled over in oregon and the officer notified him he had a warrent for theft in colorado. he was given a traffic ticket but not detained or extradited. he was then pulled over in idaho and put in custody for a warrent of failure to comply with a felony probation but didn't mention the theft warrent. why didn't they mention the theft warrent in idaho but did in oregon and vise versa. shouldn't oregon have extradited him for the failure to comply? why did idaho detaine him and not oregon?

Answer 1

It all has to do with money, and the cost it would take to extradite him, If he was charge with a much serious crime they would of kept him.

Answer 2

Each state can make its own extradition laws. This primarily affects whether or not one state will turn over a prisoner to another state. Often the type of law broken matters most here. For example, if you did not pay a speeding ticket in Florida and you are in California, Florida is not going to fly out to California to pick you up so you can pay a small fine. If you killed someone however, they will come get you. The reason why your uncle may have gotten away in Oregon but not in Idaho is because Idaho might have a law that makes it an Idaho crime to be in violation of felony probation in another state. I suspect the probation may be for what initially was a theft charge, explaining why he was told of a theft warrant in Oregon. And so while one state let him go because the charge was not high enough to hold him so far away, the next state did arrest him because he actually commited a crime in that state. Of course I am making some assumptions about your specific case here but that is generally how it works.

Answer 3

It all depends on distance from where the warrant is issued. The DA's office will determine if it is finanically reasonable to extradite someone all they way back.

If you are in California, and you have a warrant for theft $50-$200 out of a court in Kentucky, it is not worth the money to send someone to pick you and bring you all the way back halfway across the country for that small of a crime.

The court that has the warrant for someone, has to pay for the transportation of the individual. And just like regular people, courts don't want to have to pay too much for someone. However, there are big cases that the courts will extradite all the way across the country for. Like murder or sexual assault cases, and even probation or parole violations.

Answer 4

It's a money issue. The Oregon department probably know of all the issues. The nation is broken down into regions and many times warrants are put in the system as extraditable in whatever region. It costs a lot to put someone behind bars and hold them. The agency that has the warrant is the one that pays the costs and, as said earlier, the fines and crimes do not outway the costs.

Answer 5

All US States have extradition laws.

As to whether or note a specific criminal will be extradited or not depends on the crime.

If you are stopped and a check shows you are wanted in another state on some county warrant for failure to appear on a traffic ticket. They are not going to bother in most cases as the cost of extradition far outweighs the fine you will pay.

Now if the warrant was deadly assault, rape, murder, etc... you can better believe they will extradite your butt back there.

Answer 6

States are required to extridite on the request of the other state. This is law only on paper, though, because there is no national database of arrest warrants available yet. There is a nationaly database on probation and parole, mostly because of Megan's Law. Your uncle will be sent back to Colorado for the theft warrant after they do a check on the probation violation.