U.S. Court of Appeals Upholds Denial of Prisoner’s Request for Transfer and Lack of Regulations

On December 27, 1991, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Colombia Circuit in the case of David F. Bagguley v. George W. Bush in a per curiam opinion upheld a decision to deny a request by David F. Bagguley, a citizen of the United Kingdom and Australia, for the transfer under the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons, which the U.S. and U.K. ratified in 1985. The decision is important in part because it upholds the discretion by the Attorney General under the treaty and the U.S. statute applies the prisoner transfer treaty…[more]