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NORIEGA v. PASTRANA

No. 08-11021.

564 F.3d 1290 (2009)

General Manuel Antonio NORIEGA, Petitioner-Appellant, v. George PASTRANA, Warden, FCI Miami, Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, United States Department of State, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 8, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon A. May, May & Cohen, P.A., Miami, FL, for Noriega.

Lisa A. Hirsch, Kathleen Sayler, Asst. U.S. Atty., Sean Paul Cronin, Anne R. Schultz, Miami, FL, for Respondents-Appellees.

Before DUBINA and CARNES, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.

RESTANI, Chief Judge:

Appellant General Manuel Antonio Noriega appeals the decision of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida denying his petition for writ of habeas corpus. The district court determined that the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, Aug. 12, 1949, 6 U.S.T. 3316, 75 U.N.T.S. 135 ("Third Geneva Convention" or "Convention"), does not foreclose the extradition of prisoners of war and that the...

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