Posted on 09/19/2006 6:19:46 PM PDT by Hal1950
Piss on the feds if they want to play these deals.
Uhh...because Dog did it because the Mex govt wouldnt. That was his point.
I think you're on to something.
Why isn't he still living it up in Mexico? Because Dog caught him. Think about Dog having had Luster in custody and then Mexico letting him go, while arresting Dog and the publicity THAT would cause. Mexico had little choice.
Uh, that's because Dog delivered him in 2003.
I don't know about that. Some of those folks in Lafayette Park look pretty sketchy to me.
Mexico didn't release scumbag luster, they extradited him the next day back to California.
Sheesh all he had to do was not skip the bail and face the charges and the Mexican Judge probably would have let him go with a minor fine, due to the publicity.
Like I said before if Chapman had appeared when he promised to as a condition of his bail(which he skipped), I don't think he would be in as much of a jam.
If you were a Judge and you let someone out on bail and they didn't appear, I guess you would be toasting champagne at their thumbing of the nose.
I know that. I'm sorry my post was confusing. Try this:
Suppose that:Dog having had Luster in custody and then Mexico letting him go, while arresting Dog and the publicity THAT would cause. Mexico had little choice.
My point was that Mexico was forced into extraditing Luster because Dog had caught him and Dog had been arrested for it. Had they let Luster go, the whole story certainly would have come out and exposed their soft-on-criminals-who-bribe-them selves.
There is NO indication whatsoever that Mexico was in the process of looking for, attempting to locate or preparing to arrest Luster. He was living quite openly as an American.
It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt... Dane.
I am sure all these people making fun of the dog could hold off multiple armed men while the guards did nothing. Dog is a wimp. (/sarcasm)
Under an assumed identity.
Heck the french protected muderer and radical leftist ira einhorn for years and he was not under an assumed identity and living openly as ira einhorn.
You are probably right. He'd just be dead instead.
Why you persist in thinking Mexico officials would treat him rightly and fairly is beyond me. He embarrassed them and possibly cut off a large source of income.
I think there are a lot of folks here that think Mexico is just like the USA only with a different language and a little farther South. 'Tain't so, not by a long, long, way.
Oh, the Mexicans were simply waiting for the "grace period"? Yeah, right.
More likely someone down there noticed that this guy was getting a high profile with his television show, and decided to shake the money tree to see if anything falls out.
Like I said before if Chapman had appeared when he promised to as a condition of his bail(which he skipped), I don't think he would be in as much of a jam.
You may well be right about that, although FWIW on his show tonight Dog said he was under the impression from Mexican law enforcement at the time of the Lusker incident that as long as he left town and never showed his face in Mexico again, the thing would be over. After spending a week in a Mexican jail, it may be that he was understandably engaging in a little wishful thinking on that point, but I for one will cut him some slack on this, and believe the US government should call in a chit and pressure the Mexican government drop the case.
Mexico is still a third world country and if anything the narco-corruption seems to have gotten even worse in recent years. IMO you are looking at the Mexican justice system through "first world"-colored glasses.
Actually Dane, the Mexican Court deported Luster for immigration violations rather than wait for an extradition hearing. In this case the Mexican Court acted faster than any of our courts would have.............
Do you really think he would be dead? Come on the publicity that would generate makes that a silly notion, if anything Chapman would probably get his own cell and away from the other inmates.
Actually he said he'd been given legal advice to not return and that they wouldn't pursue him.
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