Francesco Caltagirone v. George v. Grant, United States Marshal

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the Sixth Amendment applies only to criminal prosecutions and therefore not to an extradition
• reversing the district court, which “simply noted that an Italian warrant of arrest was outstanding [and] saw no need to determine whether a sufficient showing had been made to support an arrest under United States law”
• probable cause means a showing that there was reason to believe a crime had been committed in that foreign country, and that defendant had committed it
• “Treaty does not contemplate a review of the validity, under Italian law, of the Italian arrest warrants”
• “The Sixth Amendment by its terms applies only to ‘criminal prosecutions,’ and an extradition proceeding is not a ‘criminal prosecution.’”
• “Had the offense [the fugitive was charged with] been committed in the United States, a showing of probable cause would have been necessary to justify the issuance of an arrest warrant.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).