Reply #6: just for anybody who doesn't know [View All]

[iverglas]

Canada does not extradite to jurisdictions where the death penalty is on the table. California is a death penalty state.

If the prosecution undertakes not to seek the death penalty, we will extradite (assuming all other requirements are met).

This is a relatively new development in Canadian constitutional law, and it is impossible to predict what would happen if the prosecuting jurisdiction refused to give that undertaking, i.e. if we found ourselves stuck with an obvious mass murderer who had broken no laws in Canada.

But this factor does show how exceedingly carefully laid his plan was, awry as it ultimately ganged.

France refused to extradite James Charles Kopp to face the charge of murdering Dr. Barnett Slepian without the undertaking, and New York gave it. Btw, Canada is waiting patiently for our kick at Kopp, on charges of attempting to murder a doctor in Ontario, among other things.