Legal Opinion
Olson v. Thurston
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided November 2, 1978PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McKUSICK, Chief Justice.
On appeal from the Superior Court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, Thomas Allen Olson seeks to prevent his extradition to Pennsylvania, where he stands charged with burglary, theft, and receiving stolen property. We deny the appeal.
Acting upon reasonable information that Olson was a fugitive from justice, police officers in Maine on November 18, 1977, arrested him, without a warrant. Following the procedure set forth in the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act, 15 M.R.S.A. §§ 201-229, 1 Olson was arraigned three days later in the Maine District Court.…
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