Legal Opinion
Skaftouros v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 20, 2011No. 11-462PublishedCited by 230 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:
This appeal requires us to clarify the proper role of a district court considering a petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenging an extradition order. 1
Petitioner-appellee Dimitrios Skaftouros (“Skaftouros”), wanted in his native Greece on charges including direct complicity in the murder of a minor, was certified as extraditable after a hearing in the United States District Court for the Southern Dis trict of New York before Magistrate Judge Theodore H. Katz, notwithstanding certain arguments he made regarding Greece’s compliance, vel non, with its own…
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