People ex rel. Neufeld v. Commissioner of New York City Department of Correction

While I agree that under governing extradition principles the court has no choice but to affirm the denial of habeas corpus relief, I write separately with respect to a troubling aspect of the case: assurances, referred to in the Appellate Division memorandum adopted as the decision of this court, made by Mississippi officials to Governor Cuomo prior to his ordering the extradition of Jarvious Cotton.

Mr. Cotton, a young black man, was indicted in 1982 by a Grand Jury in Natchez, Mississippi, as an accessory to the slaying of the son of a prominent white banker in that community and was…