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Thursday July 12 6:21 PM ET
Ex-Hippie Icon Cuts Throat to Avoid Return to U.S.
Ex-Hippie Icon Cuts Throat to Avoid Return to U.S.
By Estelle Shirbon PARIS (Reuters) - American Ira Einhorn's desperate bid to
avoid extradition for murder paid off against the odds when
France put off returning the former hippie icon to the United
States as he lay in hospital after slashing his throat. The case seemed all but over when France's Council of
State, the court that has the final say on extraditions, upheld
Thursday an order to send Einhorn back to Pennsylvania to face
a fresh trial for the 1977 murder of his girlfriend. Einhorn apparently felt so close to losing the battle that
he cut his own throat in what his wife Anikka called ``a
political act'' and his lawyers said was a suicide attempt. The
wound was not life-threatening. Shortly after his dramatic self-wounding, Einhorn, a bloody
gash well in evidence on his throat, invited a television crew
into his home in the village of Champagne-Mouton, western
France, where he has lived under house arrest. But U.S. hopes that Einhorn was finally about to be handed
over were dashed when the French government later accepted a
request by the European Court of Human Rights to postpone the
extradition at least until July 19. At the Justice Department (news - web sites) in Washington, spokeswoman Chris
Watney expressed American disappointment at the delay. Meanwhile, one of Einhorn's lawyers insisted he still had a
realistic chance of staying in France for good. Claire Waquet, who appealed to the European court on
Einhorn's behalf, said she had told the court that U.S.
assurances that her client would receive a new trial could not
be relied upon. FLED UNITED STATES IN 1981 The former hippie figurehead fled the United States in 1981
shortly before he was scheduled to face trial for the murder of
Holly Maddux. But a Pennsylvania court in 1993 sentenced Einhorn in his
absence to life imprisonment for bludgeoning Maddux to death.
Years later, a French court refused to extradite him on the
grounds that he had been convicted in an unfair trial. Pennsylvania then brought in a new law providing for a
fresh trial if Einhorn was sent back there, but Waquet said
that law was ``too fragile.'' ``Our fear is that if Mr. Einhorn returns to the United
States, he might not be granted a new trial because a judge
could refuse to apply the new law, which goes against both the
U.S. and the French constitutions,'' Waquet told Reuters. She said that although France was not legally obliged to
follow the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, it
was morally bound to do so. Einhorn has always denied the murder of Maddux, saying it
was pinned on him because he was an anti-Vietnam War activist. One of Maddux's sisters dismissed Einhorn's slitting of his
own throat as a ploy to ensure the European court would ``save
his ass.'' ``It's vintage Einhorn. I did not think he would go quietly.
But I must admit, I never thought of this one,'' Buffy Hall of
Fort Worth, Texas, told Reuters.
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Earlier Stories
Einhorn Cuts Throat in Bid to Beat Extradition (July 12)
Einhorn Cuts Throat As Extradition From France Looms (July 12)
U.S. Fugitive Attempts Suicide As Extradition Looms (July 12)
French High Court OKs Hippie Guru's Extradition (July 12)
American Einhorn Loses Extradition Appeal in France (July 12)
French High Court Told to Extradite U.S. Fugitive (July 11)
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