Legal Opinion
Andres Felipe Arias Leiva v. Warden
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 8, 2019No. 18-14328PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRANT, Circuit Judge:
The Colombian Supreme Court convicted Andres Arias Leiva of committing two crimes while he served as the country's Minister of Agriculture. Although Arias 1 attended his trial, he did not wait for the verdict; having anticipated a politically motivated conviction, Arias left for the United States, where he has lived ever since. Now Colombia wants him back. The United States plans to honor that request and extradite Arias under a treaty that the two countries signed in 1979. But while in prison pending his surrender to Colombia, Arias filed a petition for a writ of habeas…
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