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SKAFTOUROS v. U.S.

Docket No. 11-0462-cv.

667 F.3d 144 (2011)

Dimitrios SKAFTOUROS, Petitioner-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: December 20, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard B. Lind, New York, NY, for Petitioner-Appellee Dimitrios Skaftouros.

Harris Fischman, Assistant United States Attorney (Preet Bharara, United States Attorney, on the brief, Justin S. Weddle, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel), Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for Respondent-Appellant the United States of America.

Before: CABRANES, HALL, and LOHIER, Circuit Judges.

JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires us to clarify the proper role of a district court considering a petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenging an extradition order.1

Petitioner-appellee Dimitrios Skaftouros ("Skaftouros"), wanted in his native Greece on charges including direct complicity in the murder of a minor, was certified as extraditable after a hearing in the United States District Court for...

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