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Valencia-Trujillo: No Extradition Treaty, No Standing

By Tim Cone

In U.S. v. Valencia-Trujillo, No. 07-10524 (July 7, 2009), the Court affirmed the conviction and sentence of a defendant extradited from Colombia for cocaine trafficking.The Court rejected the defendant?s "rule of specialty" argument, which claimed that he had been prosecuted in the United States for crimes outside the scope of Colombia?s extradition. The Court found that the defendant lacked "standing" to make this argument, because standing depended on the text of an extradition treaty, and the defendant was not extradited under an extradition treaty, but merely pursuant to an "extradition agreement."The Court also rejected the argument that the jury convicted Valencia-Trujillo of predicate acts for a CCE conspiracy that were not charged in the indictment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Defense Newsletter Blog on July 08, 2009 (boomark / email).