David Lee CLAREY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Stephen S. GREGG, U.S. Marshall for the Southern District of California, Respondent-Appellee

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• interpreting a treaty between Mexico and the United States, under which a person “shall not” be extradited when his prosecution “has become barred by lapse of time according to the laws of the requesting or requested Party” (emphasis added)
• comparing simple homicide in Mexico and felony murder in the U.S.
• “The primary focus of dual criminality has always been on the conduct charged ... .”
• sufficient if “‘the laws of the both the requesting and the requested party appear to be directed to the same basic evil.’”
• “The object of Article 7 of the Treaty is to preclude extradition of a person whose prosecution in the United States would offend our national statute of limitations if he had committed his criminal conduct here.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).