Suwit Prasoprat v. Michael Benov, Warden

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the extradition magistrate “did not have the authority to refuse to issue a certificate of extradition on humanitarian grounds”
• noting that “the rule of non-inquiry is based on . . . the Secretary of State’s exercise of discretion”
• noting that “the rule of non-inquiry is based on . . . the Secretary of State’s exercise of discretion”
• explaining that the purpose of an extradition hearing is “to determine whether the crime is extraditable and whether there is probable cause to support the charge”
• distinguishing Demjanjuk by noting the evidence sought by Demjanjuk “related to whether he was in fact the individual who had committed the extraditable offense and thus concerned the probable cause determination”
• citing, inter alia, Fernandez v. Phillips, 8 268 U.S. 311, 312 (1925)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).