Michele Jordan wrote:
>
> I'm curious about how this is applied if the attacker is international, or even just
>in a different state.
Internationally, it would depend where they're located. If there
are no extradition treaties between the United States and that
country, there wouldn't be any extradition. Of course, the person
could be arrested and held for extradition should he enter some
other country with whom we do have extradition treaties. Extradition
between states is quite common and pretty much automatic for
felonies. I don't know that extradition is possible in either case
for misdemeanors.
There was a case years ago that I heard about where one state refused
to hand over someone wanted in another state for a serious felony. In
that case the person had lived an exemplary life for several decades
in that state after committing the crime elsewhere and the state felt
that the person posed no threat to anyone. When the other state
demanded his extradition, the first state refused to comply. (I
vaguely remember the story as appearing in the newspapers about
1965 or so, but I'm not positive.)
Eric Johnson
(By the way, I'm not a lawyer, so this doesn't construe legal advice.)
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