11th Circuit Rules that Statute of Limitations Does Not Bar Extradition to the Bahamas

On August 3, 1994, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed by a 2 to 1 vote a decision holding a Jamaican national extraditable to the Bahamas, notwithstanding the "lapse of time" and statute of limitations provisions in the extradition treaty…(more)