Commonwealth v. Luttrell, G.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that “[t]here is the ultimate safeguard that extradition proceedings before the United States courts comport with the Due Process Clause of the Constitution.”
• noting that the treaties, by their terms, gave the courts a greater role when considerations of race, religion, nationality or political opinion were allegedly at play
• noting that the Secretary may decline to extradite a fugitive “on any number of discretionary grounds, including but not limited to, humanitarian and foreign policy considerations”
• noting that “preliminary hearing is not a minitrial of the issue of guilt”
• noting that “[t]he Secretary may ... decline to surrender the relator on any number of discretionary grounds, including but not limited to, humanitarian and foreign policy considerations,” and “may also elect to use diplomatic methods to obtain fair treatment for the relator”
• stating Secretary of State retains “sole discretion to determine whether or not [a person] should actually be extradited.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).