ESCOBEDO v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 79-1480, 79-1490.

623 F.2d 1098 (1980)

Gaspar Eugenio Jimenez ESCOBEDO, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee. Gustavo CASTILLO, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Donald D. FORSHT, U. S. Marshal, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 14, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Lipinski, Miami, Fla., for Escobedo.

R. Jerome Sanford, Asst. U. S. Atty., Miami, Fla., Murray R. Stein, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for United States.

Weiner, Tunkey, Robbins, & Ross, P. A., Jeffrey S. Weiner, Miami, Fla., M. Cherif Bassiouni, Chicago, Ill., for Castillo.

Before MORGAN, ANDERSON and RANDALL, Circuit Judges.


R. LANIER ANDERSON, III, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from orders denying requests for habeas corpus relief in international extradition proceedings. On December 8, 1977, the Government of Mexico, pursuant to the United States-Mexico Extradition Treaty of 18991, requested extradition of two United States citizens, Gaspar Eugenio Jimenez Escobedo and Gustavo Castillo (petitioners), for prosecution on charges of murder, attempted...

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