Privy Council Affirms Extradition from the Bahamas to the U.S. on Drug Charges

On June 26, 2000, the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Office issued a decision, affirming a decision from the Court of Appeal of the Bahamas to extradite Alain Charron to the U.S. on international drug charges, rejecting various creative procedural defenses raised by counsel. In 1996, an intermediary in the purchase of cocaine for distribution in the Montreal/Quebec area of Canada swore an affidavit in support of an indictment issued on September 20, 1995 by a grand jury in New York against Alain Charron for cocaine distribution charges that allegedly occurred between January 1991 and December 1993. The transportation involved the use of Buffalo as an intermediate point and hence the jurisdiction of the New York federal court…[more]