United States v. Barr

MEMORANDUM

NEWCOMER, District Judge.

This case poses a question rarely addressed in the context of an international request for extradition: whether the demanding country, through the United States government, has satisfied its burden of establishing that there is probable cause to believe James Gerard Barr committed attempted murder — the offense he is charged with in Northern Ireland.

For reasons described below, I conclude that this burden has not been met, and I will therefore deny the government’s petition for extradition.

The government 1 submitted a brief with attached exhibits as the…