Elijah Ephraim Jhirad v. Thomas E. Ferrandina, United States Marshal, Southern District of New York

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• requiring demanding state to show that petitioner would not be prosecuted for a crime for which the statute of limitations had run
• inferring constructive flight when a person “had already been out of the country for a longer period than on any of his previous similar trips” abroad
• court’s concern was with determining the reason for accused’s absence from native country
• “We note, moreover, that the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee to a speedy trial, limited 20 by its terms to criminal prosecutions, is inapplicable to international extradition proceedings.”
• culpability is to be determined in the demanding country’s courts
• accomplice testimony and hearsay admissible in extradition hearing

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