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- Title: Sorting the Revolutionary from the Terrorist: The Delicate Application of the "Political Offense" Exception in U.S. Extradition Cases.
- Author : Stanford Law School
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 351 KB
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INTRODUCTION The political offense exception--the principle that an individual cannot be extradited to face criminal prosecution for a "political" act--has long been a staple of extradition law. Its existence is a matter of international consensus; almost every modern treaty contains boilerplate language exempting such offenses from its provisions. (1) That consensus abruptly ends, however, at the task of line-drawing. What is or is not "political" conduct has been the subject of controversy since the first exception appeared over 180 years ago.
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