UK Court Rejects US Extradition Request Due to Restrictive Treatment Program for Sex Offenders

                On June 28, 2012, the High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division Administrative Court reversed a decision to extradite U.S. national Shawn Sullivan on basis that the U.S. had not guaranteed Sullivan would be kept out of a “civil commitment” program in Minnesota for sex offenders.  The High Court concluded that such civil commitment would amount to a flagrant denial of Sullivan’s rights in Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights.[1]