Roman Eleuterio Smythe v. U.S. Parole Commission

Roman Eleuterio Smythe, a United States citizen, was convicted of murdering a taxicab driver and sentenced to fifteen years in prison by the Republic of Panama. After serving the first five years of his sentence in Panama, Smythe requested a transfer to serve the remainder of his sentence in the United States under the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Republic of Panama on the Execution of Penal Sentences (the United States-Panama treaty), Jan. 11, 1979, U.S.-Panama, 32 U.S.T. 1565. A United States Magistrate Judge and two public defenders traveled to Panama for a…