Ker v. Illinois

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Ker v. Illinois, 119 U.S. 436 (1886), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court unanimously held that a fugitive kidnapped from abroad and taken back to the U.S. to be tried for a crime may be tried, regardless of the legality of the kidnapping.

The incident that led to this decision involved a Pinkerton Detective Agency agent, Henry Julian, was hired by the federal government to collect a larcenist , Frederick Ker, who had fled to Peru . Although Julian had the necessary extradition papers—the two governments had negotiated an extradition treaty a decade earlier—he found that there was no official to meet his request due to the recent Chilean military occupation of Lima . Rather than return home empty-handed, Julian kidnapped the fugitive, with assistance from Chilean forces, and placed him on a U.S. vessel heading back to the United States.

Contents

• 1 See also

• 2 Further reading

• 3 References

• 4 External links

See also

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• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 119

• Ker-Frisbie Doctrine

• United States v. Rauscher, 119 U.S. 407 (1886)

• _Frisbie v. Collins _, 342 U.S. 519 (1952)

• _United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez _, 494 U.S. 259 (1990)

• _United States v. Alvarez-Machain _, 504 U.S. 655 (1992)

Further reading

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• Fairman, Charles (1953). "Ker v. Illinois Revisited". _American Journal of International Law _. 47 (4): 678–686. doi :10.2307/2194916 . JSTOR  2194916 . S2CID  246007113 .
• Preuss, Lawrence (1935). "Kidnaping of Fugitives from Justice on Foreign Territory". American Journal of International Law. 29 (3): 502–507. doi :10.1017/S0002930000168587 . JSTOR  2190429 . S2CID  151551091 .

References

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1. ↑ Ker v. Illinois, 119 U.S. 436 (1886)

External links

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• Works related to Ker v. People of the State of Illinois at Wikisource
• Text of Ker v. Illinois, 119 U.S. 436 (1886) is available from: CourtListener Findlaw Google Scholar Justia Library of Congress

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