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Mixed Record on High-Profile U.S. Extradition Requests

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2010

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1 Cumming-Bruce, Nick & Michael, Cieply, Swiss Reject U.S. Request to Extradite Polanski, N.Y. Times, July 13, 2010 Google Scholar, at A6.

2 Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police Press Release, Roman Polanski: No Extradition (July 12, 2010) at http://www.ejpd.admin.ch/ejpd/en/home/dokumentation/mi/2010/2010-07-12.html.

3 U.S. Dep’t of State Press Briefing (July 12, 2010), at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2010/07/l44473.htm.

4 France Refuses to Extradite Iranian to US (May 5, 2010), at http://www.english.rfi.fr/americas/20100505-france-refuses-extradite-iranian-us.

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10 United States v. Khadr, 2010 ONSC 4338, para. 2, at http://www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/index.html.

11 Id., para. 150.

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