Sonkin v. State

¶ 30. The majority, in its fourteen-page diatribe, tries to circumvent its previous holding in State v. McCurley, 627 So.2d 339 (Miss.1993), which is undeniably similar to this case. The majority says that Sonkin was not given a hearing, when in fact, he was given a hearing. We are to base our decisions on the record. In this case, Sonkin was given a hearing, and it was concluded that the documents on their face were proper and that the court had to honor the extradition. Some of the factual scenarios to which the majority alludes as being in dispute, are the same factual scenarios that…