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

On February 10, 2004, the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council affirmed a decision of the Court of Appeals of the Bahamas that Frank Cartwright and Samuel Knowles should be extradited to the U.S. to stand trial in Florida on charges of having committed drug offenses. The background is that on December 8, 2000, a U.S. Grand Jury indicated Cartwright and Knowles on the following counts: (a) between November 11, 1997 and December 8, 2000, conspiracy to possess cocaine and marijuana with intent to distribute it; and (b) during the same period, conspiracy to import the same drugs into the U.S...[more]