United States Fourth Circuit

Denial of habeas corpus relief from a certification of extraction declaring that petitioner was eligible to be extradited to Italy to serve time for a drug trafficking conviction is affirmed where: 1) a certified copy of the appellate opinion of the foreign court satisfied the showing required by treaty and clearly afforded a reasonable basis upon which to find probable cause; and 2) evidence beyond the fact of a foreign conviction itself is not necessary to establish probable cause.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/09/2008
• Published 06/09/2008

Judges

• Before TRAXLER, Circuit Judge, HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge, and DAVID R. HANSEN, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Darren Johnson, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellant.  Justin Okun, Office of the United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Michael S. Nachmanoff, Federal Public Defender, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellant.   Chuck Rosenberg, United States Attorney, Lawrence J. Leiser, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellee.