Zhenli Gon v. Gerald Holt

Affirmed by published opinion.

Judge SHEDD wrote the opinion, in which Judge FLOYD and Senior Judge DAVIS joined.

SHEDD, Circuit Judge:

In 2008, Mexico sent a request to the United States to extradite Zhenli Ye Gon, a Mexican citizen. Ye Gon’s extradition hearing was held before a magistrate judge in the District of Columbia, who determined that Ye Gon was extraditable under the Extradition Treaty Between the United States of America and the United Mexican States 1 (“Treaty”). Ye Gon then filed a habeas corpus petition challenging this determination in the Western District of Virginia, and the…