extradition

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-715 Masahide Kanayama v. Scott Kowal, Chief Pretrial Services Officer, Southern District of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending Response Waived criminal-procedure damage-calculation district-court dual-criminality extradition japanese-law Whether the District Court improperly relied on a hypothetical damage calculation to satisfy the dual criminality element in Dr. Kanayama's extraditio…
24-1288 Monika Kapoor v. Vincent F. DeMarco, United States Marshal for the Eastern District of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-06-17 Denied convention-against-torture extradition habeas-corpus immigration-law judicial-review suspension-clause Whether Congress has stripped the federal courts of habeas jurisdiction over Convention Against Torture (CAT) claims by individuals facing extradition
24-7353 Jose Trinidad Martinez Santoyo v. Lasha Boyden, former United States Marshal for the Eastern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure extradition international-law sixth-amendment speedy-trial treaty-interpretation Whether the Sixth Amendment Speedy Trial Clause constitutes a law that can bar extradition under the United States-Mexico Extradition Treaty due to la…
23-7466 Beatrice M. Uwamariya v. Enias Baganizi California 2024-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-interpretation due-process extradition federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority standing state-officers supreme-court-orders unauthorized-practice-of-law Whether state court judges can defy orders of the U.S. Supreme Court
23-7203 Vladimir Blasko v. Lasha Boyden, Acting United States Marshal for the Eastern District of California Ninth Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court-role extradition extradition-treaty foreign-state-law judicial-interpretation requesting-state-law statute-of-limitations treaty-interpretation treaty-obligations treaty-provisions When must a district court interpret and apply a requesting state's statute of limitations in an extradition proceeding?
23-6638 Trent Drexel Howard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process extradition government-delay governmental-delay incarceration sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-protections speedy-trial speedy-trial-clause Did the Ninth Circuit err by failing to treat 'undue and oppressive incarceration' and 'anxiety and concern accompanying public accusation' as the maj…
23-5562 Paul Dubois v. Nelson Alves, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure court-conflict criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-law judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-review standing whether-the-united-states-of-appeals-has-entered-a-decision-in-conflict-with-the-decision-of-another-united-states-court-of-appeals-on-the-same-justic…
23-5287 In Re William G. Haake 2023-08-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP doctrine-of-speciality dual-criminality due-process extradition extradition-law habeas-corpus jurisdiction perjury prosecutorial-misconduct treaty-interpretation treaty-obligations Whether the United States Treaty 22 (1971) deprived Florida of jurisdiction when they knowingly used perjured information to compel Spain through trea…
22-6343 Rossen Iossifov v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP bitcoin-exchange criminal-venue due-process extradition extraterritorial-jurisdiction money-laundering racketeering venue wire-fraud Jurisdictional-grounds-for-SCOTUS-review
22-5705 Lateef Alagbada v. United States Third Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-order criminal-defendant criminal-procedure extradition final-judgment-rule habeas-corpus international-law pretrial-order repatriation Whether a pretrial order denying a motion for repatriation of an incarcerated criminal defendant falls within the exception to the final judgment rule
22-5040 Priscilla Ann Ellis v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2022-07-06 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure due-process extradition indictment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Right-to-counsel
21-8211 Richard Vincent Letizia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition federal-appeals habeas-corpus identity-dispute Whether the State of Texas can grant extended bail without first meeting the burden of proving the petitioner's identity?
21-685 Alexander Khochinsky v. Republic of Poland District of Columbia 2021-11-09 Denied Response Waived bad-faith bad-faith-litigation civil-rights diplomatic-immunity extradition foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity personal-property religion-ethnicity sovereign-immunity Whether a foreign state that seeks to resolve title to moveable personal property because it is owned by an individual of a particular religion or eth…
21-5119 Billy Wolfe v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP cherokee-nation criminal-jurisdiction extradition extradition-law federal-jurisdiction indian-law state-criminal-law state-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation treaty-rights Whether the provisions of treaties between the Cherokee Nation and the United States reserve jurisdiction for crimes committed by a Cherokee Nation ci…
20-7842 Eliu Elixander Lorenzana-Cordon v. United States District of Columbia 2021-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion district-court-procedure due-process extradition extradition-notice international-law judicial-discretion jurisdiction motion-for-new-trial notice treaties treaty-violation Did the District Court abuse its discretion by denying the motion for a new trial without taking into consideration that the document of extradition t…
20-1065 Christopher Hudler v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-02-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition fourteenth-amendment in-absentia in-absentia-trial sixth-amendment Whether petitioner's judgment of conviction was rendered in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, where …
20-5556 Genaro Edgar Espinosa Dorantes v. Kevin Genovese, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied IFP §2254-case civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling extradition extradition-treaty habeas-corpus language-barrier mexican-national Did the District Court Err Or Abuse Its Discretion in a § 2254 case When It Denied Equitable Tolling To A Mexican National, Unable To Speak Or Underst…
20-5013 Rafeal D. Newson v. Superior Court of California, Pima County, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied IFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus interstate-detainers-act probable-cause Malicious prosecution - favorable termination, abuse of process, Interstate Agreement on Detainers Act, extradition, mandamus, habeas corpus
19-8382 Christopher Ewing, aka Alex Christopher Ewing v. Nevada Nevada 2020-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-hearing fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act's guarantee of the right to 'demand and procure counsel' requires state courts to appoint counsel for ind…
19-6788 Eber Roblero v. Florida Florida 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition jurisdiction standing takings Whether the Gallina doctrine applies to a criminal defendant who has been extradited to the United States
19-6058 Guy Philippe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-analysis civil-procedure-standing constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process extradition international-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent res-judicata standing Whether the Court's conclusions in United States v. Rauscher, 119 U.S. 407 (1886) in conjunction with Kirkpatrick & Co., Inc. v. Environmental Tectoni…
19-313 Neringa Venckiene v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Response Waived atrocious-procedures-or-punishments constitutional-limitations due-process extradition extradition-law extradition-law-political-offense-exception international-law judicial-review political-offense political-offense-exception state-department terrorism war-like-insurrection Whether the Seventh Circuit has correctly construed the 'political offense' exception to extradition by limiting the term only to offenses committed i…
19-5710 Chidi Ezeobi v. Jamal Jamison, Warden Third Circuit 2019-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP credit criminal-procedure due-process extradition foreign-incarceration incarceration international-law sentence-credit sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-credit statutory-interpretation Is Mr. Ezeobi entitled to seven months of credit toward his sentence for the time he was incarcerated in England awaiting extradition to the United St…
19-5058 In Re Artur Tchibassa 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-violation extradition habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-discretion jurisprudence savings-clause statutory-interpretation structural-error Whether the lower courts abused their discretion by refusing to apply the Reyes-Requena savings clause jurisprudence
18-1253 Brian Mark Burmaster v. Switzerland Third Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied 18-usc-229 asset-seizure chemical-weapon chemical-weapons civil-rights diplomatic-immunity due-process embassy-contact extradition federal-statute international-law international-terrorism standing swiss-assets terrorism uncontested-proceedings writ-of-certiorari Whether the Supreme Court should punish Switzerland for an alleged chemical weapon attack on a U.S. citizen by enforcing a lien on Swiss assets, despi…
18-8588 Francis O. Rossy v. Sgt. Lupkin, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied IFP asylum-state civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process extradition extradition-liability habeas-corpus prison-litigation-reform-act procedural-challenge standing When a petitioner challenges his extradition, are the defendant-responsible-for-the-extradition-totally-exempt-from-liability, although they knew of t…
18-7674 Michael S. Gorbey v. Michael McCall, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process extradition federal-jurisdiction federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Can a state habeas corpus be removed from state court to federal court?
18-542 John E. Hamilton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response Waived charging criminal-procedure defendant-standing due-process extradition extradition-treaty international-law punishment rule-of-specialty sentencing standing treaty treaty-interpretation Whether an individual defendant has standing to assert a rule of specialty violation
18-6027 Hayden Beaulieu v. Arizona Arizona 2018-09-18 Denied IFP 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment extradition juvenile-justice plea-deal prosecutorial-discretion sentencing transfer-hearing Is it permissible under the 8th amendment to impose an adult sentence on a minor for a non-dangerous, non-repetitive offense?
18-5642 Miroslav Fejfar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP animal-sci-prod-v-hebei-welcome-pharm asylum civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition foreign-criminal-procedure foreign-law immigration statutory-interpretation withholding-of-removal Whether due process and the plain meaning of the statute on withholding of removal require that pending asylum issues be heard and resolved before ext…
18-5202 Samuel Knowles v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability consular-notification criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-process international-treaty jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect Question not identified
18-5144 Julio Gutierrez-Jaramillo v. Warden, FCI Gilmer Fourth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3585 bureau-of-prisons bureau-of-prisons-program-statement criminal-procedure due-process extradition federal-bureau-of-prisons foreign-detention judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-credit sentencing-guidelines time-credit time-served united-states-v-wilson Whether prior credit for time held in foreign detention can only be given by the Federal Bureau of Prisons and not by the district court at sentencing
18-5104 Christopher Reed v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Pennsylvania 2018-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP arkansas civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extradition extradition-law extradition-process federal-laws habeas-corpus human-trafficking involuntary-servitude pennsylvania procedural-default tennessee uniform-criminal-extradition-act Did the State of Arkansas, Tennessee and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania violate the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act by not following Federal laws on ex…