Williams v. Rouse

The petitioner is in the custody of the Sheriff of Suffolk County, held on a Governor’s warrant, issued upon request of the Governor of North Carolina, for extradition to North Carolina for the purpose of prosecution on an indictment for first *441degree murder.1 Before the Court is the petitioner’s petition for release from custody, challenging the validity of the Governor’s warrant.

I. The Applicable Standard.

Art. IV, §2, cl. 2 of the United States Constitution provides: “A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another…