Jack Shields v. Dr. George J. Beto, Director, Texas Department of Corrections

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• holding that the state had waived jurisdiction of its right to execute its sentence where it had waited 28 years to enforce that right
• noting that “delay in execution of a sentence is repugnant to the law”
• finding Texas’s lack of interest in prisoner to constitute a waiver of jurisdiction
• “Fourteenth Amendment . . . requires that ‘action by a state through any of its agencies must be consistent with the fundamental principles of liberty and justice’ ”
• failure to reacquire jurisdiction over prisoner for more than 28 years after extradition pardoned the sentence, and attempt to require defendant to serve sentence after 28 years violated due process
• lapse of 28 years where state showed no interest in the return of the prisoner was “equivalent to a pardon or commutation of his sentence and a waiver of jurisdiction” over prisoner

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).