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Supreme Court of Canada rules that, when Canadian government granted extradition to United States of two Canadian youths to be tried for triple murders without obtaining assurances that Washington state would not impose death penalty, it contravened the Canadian Charter of Rights and Liberties.
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International Law Update
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February 1, 2001
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The State of Washington is anxious to extradite Glen Sebastian Burns and Atif Ahmad Rafay (respondents) from Canada for trial on three coun...
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