SKAFTOUROS v. U.S.

Docket No. 11-0462-cv.

667 F.3d 144 (2011)

Dimitrios SKAFTOUROS, Petitioner-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: December 20, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard B. Lind , New York, NY, for Petitioner-Appellee Dimitrios Skaftouros.

Harris Fischman , Assistant United States Attorney ( Preet Bharara , United States Attorney, on the brief, Justin S. Weddle , Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel), Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for Respondent-Appellant the United States of America.

Before: CABRANES, HALL, and LOHIER, Circuit Judges.


JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires us to clarify the proper role of a district court considering a petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenging an extradition order.1

Petitioner-appellee Dimitrios Skaftouros ("Skaftouros"), wanted in his native Greece on charges including direct complicity in the murder of a minor, was certified as extraditable after a hearing in the United States District Court for...

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