Follow-up on Denver Cop Killer...extradition approved.
Posted on 11/25/2005 9:22:48 AM PST by NormsRevenge
DENVER (AP) - A man accused of killing a Denver police officer can be extradited to the United States, the Consulate General of Mexico said.
Raul Gomez-Garcia was charged with second-degree murder and attempted murder in the death of Detective Donald Young and the wounding of Detective John H. Bishop in May while the men were working off-duty as security for a party.
He has been jailed in Mexico since he was captured there in June.
Gomez-Garcia has 15 working days to appeal, the Mexican Consulate said in a news release Thursday. If he does not, he could be returned to Colorado before the end of the year, Denver district attorney's spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough said.
"It kind of gets rid of that cloud that's over our head," Young's widow, Kelly, told KUSA-TV. "The biggest thing is we want to see him back here and we want to see him go through our justice system."
Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey had said the charge of second-degree murder was brought because a first-degree murder charge could have blocked the extradition. First-degree murder in Colorado can be punishable by the death penalty or life imprisonment.
A 1978 treaty with the United States allows Mexico to deny extradition if the person faces the death penalty, and more recently the Mexican courts also blocked extradition of suspects facing life in prison without the possibility of parole.
A provision that cuts off foreign aid to countries that refuse to extradite anyone suspected of killing an American law-enforcement officer was part of a foreign aid bill signed into law by President Bush earlier this month.
"A provision that cuts off foreign aid to countries that refuse to extradite anyone suspected of killing an American law-enforcement officer was part of a foreign aid bill signed into law by President Bush earlier this month."
Wish it included all Americans and not just law-enforcement officers, but it's a start.
Good news for a change.
Follow-up on Denver Cop Killer...extradition approved.
Funny, the Mexican government wasn't going to releease him to US custody until they pulled his (wallet) strings.
But, of course, protecting a murderer was OK.
Costing money was NOT OK.
Once again good-hearted illegal immigrants are given rights superior to those of American citizens who would almost surely face the death penalty for a similar cop killing.
I agree. I also hate to see 1st degree murder charges reduced in order to get them back into this country.
With all of the remittances Mexico gets from their traveling ambassadors of goodwill, they shouldn't get foreign aid anyway.
It's still B.S. that they had to bump down the charge just to get Mexico to cooperate.
Special privilege for the praetorian guard. Of course there are so many muderers hiding in Mexico who have killed ordinary Americans and others that extending this law to cover them would mean an automatic cut off in aid to Mexico. Limiting it to law-enforcement officers allows the politicians to pretend they're for Law'n'Order without messing up their dinner arrangements at all those south of the border conferences they're always having.
There is an officer who was murdered here in L.A. some time ago named Marsh, I beleive ( John and Ken L.A. talkradio talk about him with his family off and on).
The D.A. here refuses to plea deal on it. I wonder what will happen, will Mexico lose their (really OUR) money over this years old murder, or will they turn this guy over without the plea deal?
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Slain cop's wife fights for home
She alleges in lawsuit that seller has stalled closing deal on house
By John Aguilar, Rocky Mountain News
November 1, 2005
The widow of slain Denver police officer Donald Young has filed suit to force the owner of the Castle Rock home she has occupied for nearly a year to sell her the property.
Kelly Young says she wants to stay in Castle Rock for her daughter's sake.
Kelly Young said that she has been living in the home in the Castle Pines North subdivision with her two daughters since January, the month she and her husband were supposed to have taken possession.
But Young said she and her children have been left in a state of limbo, with the home's owner continually extending the closing date to buy time to get the title work in order.
"Every month that went by, we were getting excuse after excuse," Young said Monday.
By June, Young said the real estate contract she and her husband signed had elapsed, the mortgage on the home had been increased without her knowledge, the homeowner had disappeared, and foreclosure was a possibility.
She said all she wants to do is buy the house for $345,000, the price originally agreed upon. If that can't be done, she wants to at least be reimbursed for the $25,000 worth of work she's put into the house.
"I'm doing what I can to stay in this same area so that my daughter can continue going to the same high school," she said.
Young's suit, filed in September, names Darin DeVoe, along with several of his real estate businesses; Jan Davenport, one of DeVoe's investors; and Terry Hastings, DeVoe's real estate agent.
The suit alleges that DeVoe fraudulently represented himself as the home's owner, when he had sold the house to Davenport in 2003.
It goes on to accuse Davenport of borrowing additional money on the house without informing the Youngs "as a scheme to secure financing far in excess of the actual value of the residence."
The suit says that with a $385,000 mortgage on the house, the sellers would have to come to the "closing table with funds significantly in excess of the purchase price of $345,000," - essentially stalling the deal.
Hastings, who the suit identifies as Davenport's mother, said Monday that she was not aware of the refinancing deal at the time and wants nothing more than to transfer ownership of the house to Young.
But she said she hasn't been able to contact DeVoe, who has been the signatory in the deal, since June.
"If anything can be done to get it to her, we want Kelly to have the property. Because she deserves it and has been through enough," Hastings said.
Donald Young and fellow officer John Bishop were shot while working off-duty security at a baptism party on May 8. Bishop was wounded but survived. Young died at the hospital.
Raul Gomez-Garcia, the man charged with shooting the officers, is in jail in Mexico. The United States has requested his extradition.
aguilarj@RockyMountainNews.com or 303-892-2550
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I wonder if they could drop the 2nd degree charges, and recharge him w/ 1st degree?
Mexico OKs extradition in Colo. shooting
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I don't know the legalities of that. Maybe someone else can answer that question.
Bet it would really tick off Mexico if that happened. =:0
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