California Court of Appeal

IN RE TIMOTHY WALTON, B153201

Denial of a Georgia prison escapee's writ of habeas corpus was proper under California's version of the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act, where 1) Georgia did not waive extradition, 2) Georgia is not estopped from seeking it, and 3) no extraordinary circumstances militate against extradition.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/26/2002
• Published 06/26/2002

Judges

• WOODS, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Leo Branton, Jr. and Lawrence Teeter, Los Angeles, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Jo Graves, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and J. Robert Jibson, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.