MEZA v. U.S. ATTY. GEN.

No. 11-13433.

693 F.3d 1350 (2012)

Carlos Alberto Yacaman MEZA, Petitioner-Appellant, v. U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL, United States Department of Justice, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 6, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernardo Lopez , Fed. Pub. Def., Fort Lauderdale, FL, Michael Caruso , Fed. Pub. Def., Miami, FL, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Jeanne Marie Mullenhoff , Wifredo A. Ferrer , Kathleen Mary Salyer , Anne Ruth Schultz , U.S. Attys., Miami, FL, Cynthia Stone , U.S. Atty., Fort Lauderdale, FL, for Respondents-Appellees.

Before WILSON, PRYOR and MARTIN, Circuit Judges.


PRYOR, Circuit Judge:

This appeal involves the constitutional separation of powers and the limited judicial role in the extradition of a foreign national. Carlos Alberto Yacaman Meza, a Honduran national, appeals the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. See 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (2006). The Republic of Honduras requested, under the United States-Honduras Extradition Treaty of 1909, that the United States extradite Yacaman for prosecution on the...

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