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>I would expect to be extradited to the US. But you wouldn't expect the US to agree to deport you back to Russia as part of the extradition assurance.
by boomboomsubban 5y ago
>I would expect to be extradited to the US.
But you wouldn't expect the US to agree to deport you back to Russia as part of the extradition assurance.
- vlovich123 5y agoI'm not a lawyer so I don't know the specifics of whether this is weird or not. Generally, my impression is that in these kinds of cases the government has quite a bit of latitude in structuring the agreement almost however they want because they're negotiating with a party they have no authority over and they're seeking to get something out of it. I'm not really sure I'm following what you find so abnormal here. If anything, this is an indictment that the US penal system is so badly structured that people have legitimate claims of concerns over inhumane treatment. That the federal government has ad-hoc legal workarounds they can employ is likely a feature & not a bug at this point. It lets us keep this medieval system as the stick which puts us in more favorable situations generally for negotiating extraditions. I'm not saying this is good or a just system. I'm just saying that, without hearing arguments from legal experts, this doesn't seem out of the ordinary & I could see how we've rationally arrived at the status quo.