Posted on 02/15/2007 11:29:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) - A federal court cleared the way for TV bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman to be extradited to face charges in Mexico, court officials said Thursday.
Norma Jara, a spokeswoman for the second district court in Guadalajara, said the court rejected Chapman's injunction request, ruling there was no reason not to try him with the charge of deprivation of liberty of Mexico.
Mexican authorities had already asked for Chapan's extradition from the state of Hawaii.
Chapman's lawyers argued he would not be guaranteed a fair trial in Mexico, Jara said.
The charges against the 53-year-old star of the A&E reality series "Dog the Bounty Hunter" stem from his June 2003 capture of convicted rapist Andrew Luster, the Max Factor heir, in Puerto Vallarta, 210 miles west of Guadalajara.
Chapman was arrested Sept. 14 along with his son and another associate and released on $300,000 bail. He faces up to four years in a Mexican jail if convicted.
Luster's capture shot the Honolulu-based bounty hunter to fame and led to the TV series. His disappearance set off an international manhunt by police, FBI and bounty hunters trying to recoup some of the bond money. Luster is serving a 124-year prison term.
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This is just part of the following,
http://www.spp.gov/
Just like the border guard travesty it just keeps on going the Mexican way.
Fans, is this true? I doubt that.
Worth going to war over.
Eff Mexico.
Break our border laws every sixty seconds and suddenly law matters to them?
Right.
Yes, it is true. He might have become famous anyway -- he certainly has the ability. But this case is what got him the show.
Or more accurately, made the show. Check out Wiki, it's got a pretty good synopsis.
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He is alleged to have committed a crime in Mexico. He was let out on bond in Mexico, and came back to the United States, and then did not show up for his trial date (he jumped bail, kind of ironic).
Hopefully, he can make this go away with money. I'd hate to see him have to spend time in a Mexican prison.
I wasn't aware the snatch and grab was back in 2003, I thought it was more recent.
Yeah, he was nearly famous at the time and promised one of the victims on a tv show that he would track down the dirtbag and bring him to justice. He did it, and a star was born.
A lot of people do not like the Dog; he is a showboat and melodramatic. Yet, I cannot help but admire a man that makes such a promise and keeps it in such a spectacular way.
If Mexico was unwilling to extradite Luster then we should be unwilling to extradite Chapman.
Yes, and how many other criminals have fled back to Mexico. Aren't there a few cop killers down there?
Isn't there a provision in NAFTA that allows US bounty hunters to retrieve US scumbags from Mexico? I have no problem with Mexican bounty hunters retrieving Mexican national bail jumpers from this side of the boarder.
How many more times is the country going to bow to fraking Mexico before people start revolting.
Shouldn't that be a two-way street?
Somehow I can't imagine a federal court ruling that President George W. Bush should be extradited to any number of Third World hellholes because of some absurd charges originating in said hellholes?
It's called 'precedent'. Never before in my memory has a United States citizen been forcibly extradited off of U.S. soil and into the hands of a foreign government.
This is shameful.
Too bad our government appears to be shameless.
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