Word: osadebay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Theoretically, extradition is a straightforward business. The U.S. has bilateral treaties on the subject with 81 nations; in general, they hold that when one country provides prima-facie evidence that the wanted man committed a crime, the other country will hand him over. Bahamian Magistrate Emmanuel Osadebay decided that the U.S. had not made a prima-facie case against Vesco before him. While the principle seems simple, Vesco's situation is only one more example of the maddening difficulties, tricky technicalities and extra-legal power plays that characterize some of the 45 or so extradition requests that...
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