DOJ Calls Ruling in International Extradition Dispute ‘Misguided’

Justice Department lawyers who handle extradition requests are arguing that a D.C. federal judge's ruling that compels the government to search for and turn over favorable evidence to lawyers for a fugitive creates damaging precedent that hurts foreign relations. DOJ lawyers handling the extradition of Zhenli Ye Gon, who had been charged in the United States in a drug trafficking conspiracy, contend that the ruling gives international fugitives more rights than domestic defendants have at the probable cause stage.