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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Actually, the generation that has made this NWO decision is actually the preceding generation -- the last holdovers of the WWII generation (Bush 41) and the "war babies" and "depression babies" (people born from 1930 to 1945, like Dick Cheney in 1941) who worked for them.
The deal was fixed by the time the Boomers got any stroke, Bill Gates and Michael Dell excepted.
There is still a hell of a lot of power in the hands of people like Warren Buffett and people of his cohort. Look at Ted Kennedy -- he's been a senator for what, 30 years?
Neither Newt Gingrich nor Nancy Pelosi is a Boomer -- both are "war babies", Newt born in 1943, Pelosi in 1940. Harry Reid is older than either. John Kerry's a "war baby", too -- 1943. Bill Bennett, Richard Perle, John Ashcroft -- all "war babies". Not a Boomer in the bunch.
Isn't that what the gov of Mexico does everyday?
Just doing the crimes Americans are unwilling to do.
Hey, AD, did this cross your desk? I didn't see it at the CFR.
You found it! How did you find that website? It's super-secret. Super-super-secret.
Well, now the cat's out of the bag.
Totally wrong!!! BS of the highest order.
I'll send a helicopter to pick him up.
I don't think he talked to the Mexican police. Bounty hunting is illegal in Mexico, who would go tell the cops they're going to do something illegal, even Mexican cops have some pride.
I thought the mexican govt had decided to suspend extradition at this time?
No, I watched the video of it. It shows he and his son and Tim outside the nightclub. Tim, I think goes in to ID Luster and comes out. There was a mexicali nearby and he went over and told him that he was going on so if there was a commotion the mexicali wouldn't come up with guns drawn. It was on the A & E show about 2-3 weeks ago. Year of the Dog was the name of the show and it went over the Luster fiasco.
It also showed the Dog and Beth were told by their mexican attorney that his charge is a misdemeanor and that they should just go back to the US as mexico wouldn't pursue something so trivial. Now it appears they are making an example of him. iirc, Duane believes that the US is offering him up so they can get their hands on some drug king pins.
Well so much for their sense of pride. But it's still illegal in Mexico and that doesn't go away because some cop near the nightclub decided they didn't care.
I think the problem came in when Dog leveraged that to become famous. Getting famous for breaking the law in a country isn't likely to make that country happy with your continued freedom.
Alberto Gonzales is an enemy of America. I call on Congressmen Tancredo, Rohrbacher and Hunter to immediate start impeachment proceedings in the House against this vile creature. Once he is impeached and removed from office, Gonzales should be deported to Mexico, the land of his true masters. He is easily the worst Attorney General in U.S. history.
While there is a ring of silliness about it "we should ignore their laws because they're ignoring ours" does have a certain kindergarten pettiness that really shouldn't be part of foreign policy.
I think they'd only stop us from forcing them to return...if they wanted to return illegally it appears the Mexican government would assist, with pamphlets on how to get across the boarder at a minimum.
Bounty hunter Daniel Kear was extradited to Canada on kidnapping charges related to one of his bounties, convicted too. We extradite a lot of people to other countries, it just doesn't get a lot of coverage because most of them don't have TV shows.
Not true. Luster killed no one. He drugged, raped and assaulted dozens of women and taped the attacks.
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