Legal Opinion
Pacileo v. Walker
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 23, 1981No. 79-2040PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Per curiam
The United States Constitution provides that “[a] person charged in any State with Treason, Felony or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.” Art. IV, § 2, cl. 2.
In this case, there is no dispute as to the facts necessary to resolve the legal question presented. In 1975, respondent James Dean Walker escaped from the Arkansas Department of Corrections and remained at large until he was apprehended in…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Michigan v. DoranSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Sweeney v. WoodallSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
3Cited by42 opinions
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- New Mexico Ex Rel. Ortiz v. ReedSupreme Court of the United States · 1998
- Ahmad v. WigenDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1989
- James Dean Walker v. A.L. Lockhart, Superintendent of the Arkansas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1984
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