Posted on 08/02/2007 2:53:07 PM PDT by SmithL
PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (AP) -- A Mexican judge has ruled to close the criminal case against bounty hunter and TV reality star Duane "Dog" Chapman, but state prosecutors have appealed the decision, officials said Thursday.
In the July 27 ruling, Judge Jose Alberto Montes ruled the statute of limitations had expired on the case, said Guillermo Diaz, assistant prosecutor for the state of Jalisco, where Puerto Vallarta is located.
Chapman was arrested in September by U.S. authorities on a Mexican warrant stemming from his 2003 capture of fugitive convicted rapist and Max Factor cosmetics heir Andrew Luster in Puerto Vallarta.
Luster jumped a $1 million bond and disappeared during his trial in Ventura, Calif., on charges that he drugged and raped three women. The disappearance set off a national and international manhunt by police, FBI and bounty hunters trying to recoup some of the bond money. Luster is now serving a 124-year prison term.
Bounty hunting is illegal in Mexico.
State prosecutors, however, want to continue pursuing Mexico's request to have Chapman extradited,
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Go Dog!........
Good news!
I’m sure it’s perfectly legal for Mexicans to be bounty hunters in that country, looking for fugitives.
One MEAN dude!
Good..I’m glad hes off their radar for now. Even though he’s a colorful character, I like Dog. I think that if he actually gets these people back on the straight and narrow, then he’s doing a good thing.
And I don’t for a minute think there’s a mean bone in his body. Maybe he’s trying to atone for his past sins.
Actually it’s not. The US is one of the few countries with legalized bounty hunting, and the only one in North America.
Go Dog...I’m so glad to hear the news!!
But Mexico promoting illegal entry into the US is not.
Oh
Well Mexico can kiss my butt.
Who’s up for a stealth incursion into Mexico?!
Ahhh you beat me to it. :) Ditto though.
Canada doesn’t like citizens hunting down citizens for money either. It’s actually pretty rare for countries to approve of bounty hunting, it is kind of a weird practice.
However, that's exactly the way Ron Paul proposes to fight the war on terrorists.
We have 20 million of their people here............And they want Dog..............I don’t think so............
Dog better watch his back for Johnny Sutton. Johnny reports to the Mexican Gov’t.
I found it amazing beyond belief that Mexico had any objections to Dog bringing this dirtbag in. You’d think they’d be glad to be rid of him no matter who took him down.
Hooray for the Dog!
Letters or marque are a little different, because your citizens are largely going to be hunting non-citizens. Though there are a lot of similarities. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing, but it is kind of weird for a basically unlicensed untrained person (some states have serious licensing requirements for bounty hunters, most don’t) to be empowered to go get somebody and haul them to court with no real paperwork or extradition or anything.
Seems like Dog's wife is not the best person to be chasing/harassing.......although the local grapevine has it that she is a royal female canine, so might have provoked the guy. Hawaiians are like that.
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