U.S. v. KIN-HONG

No. 97-1084.

110 F.3d 103 (1997)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Lui KIN-HONG, a/k/a Jerry Lui, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 20, 1997.

Order Denying Rehearing April 10, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alex Whiting, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Donald K. Stern, United States Attorney, Susan Hanson-Philbrick, Assistant United States Attorney, and Michael Surgalla, United States Department of Justice, Office of International Affairs, were on brief, for the United States.

Andrew Good, with whom Harvey A. Silverglate and Silverglate & Good were on brief, for appellee.

Michael Posner and John Reinstein on brief for Lawyer's Committee for Human Rights and American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, amici curiae in support of appellee.

Before BOUDIN, Circuit Judge, ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.


Order Denying Rehearing En Banc April 10, 1997.

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

The United States District Court granted a writ of habeas corpus to Lui Kin-Hong ("Lui"), who sought the writ after a magistrate judge certified to the Secretary of State that she may, in her discretion, surrender Lui for extradition to the Crown Colony of Hong Kong. The United Kingdom, on behalf of Hong Kong, had sought Lui's extradition on a warrant...

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