Posted on 11/05/2007 7:29:19 PM PST by SmithL
San Francisco (AP) -- Television bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman, who had his reality show taken off the air after getting caught using a racial slur, will not be extradited to Mexico to face a pending appeal of kidnapping charges against him, a judge ruled Monday.
The U.S. government had been trying to send Chapman, his son Leland Chapman and a third man to the resort town of Puerto Vallarta, where they were charged with kidnapping Andrew Luster, a Max Factor heir who had jumped a $1 million bond on charges that he drugged and raped three women.
Luster's disappearance during his trial in California set off an international manhunt by police, FBI and bounty hunters trying to recoup some of the bond money. In June 2003, Chapman and the others apprehended Luster, and the fugitive was taken back to the United States to serve the 124-year sentence he was given while on the lam.
But because bounty hunting is illegal in Mexico, prosecutors in that country charged the three with kidnapping and asked U.S. authorities to arrest the trio and ship them to Puerto Vallarta.
A Mexican judge dismissed the kidnapping charges in July, ruling that Mexican prosecutors had taken too long in their attempts to bring the trio to trial. But Mexican prosecutors appealed the ruling, and the U.S. attorney's office in Honolulu, where the senior Chapman lives, declined to dismiss the extradition proceedings pending the outcome.
Still, U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Kurren in Honolulu on Monday dismissed the extradition attempt because the judge said the three are no longer charged with any offenses, despite the appeal.
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Now let sleeping Dogs lie.
Yes, good!
I thought Dog already went to Mexico and got this staightened out.
Now they want to extradite dogs? What the eff?!
I heard the Dog will be on with Sean to demonstrate how to beg for forgiveness for any one whom “may have offended by his remarks ....”
Regards
Dog’s son ought to beg for forgiveness.
Oh god, so if anyone disrespects blacks in this country, they’re out. Pathetic. Not that he said it, but that by saying it, he’s out.
This is ludicrous. How much longer will this insanity continue? Blacks are just cruising around looking for reasons to snivel. Meanwhile, they say the word themselves in an endless loop.
At some point, someone’s going to say it and tell everyone who doesn’t like it to eff off. We’ll have found a man in the US and Europe who still has a penis.
'Dog' should have gotten both a medal and a reward for bringing that rapist to justice, something the FBI seemed unable to do.
You’re just jealous because you weren’t born with a deck of 52 race cards to throw down at every real or imagined grievance. 104 if you’re playing double deck.
I agree.
OMG!!! Someone said the “N-Word”?????
Listening to grown reporters saying “He used the “N-Word” is so damn juvenile.
They sound like my 5 year old daughter tattling on her older brother: “Daddy, he said a very bad word that starts with an “h” and ends with double toothpicks”.
Jeez. Don’t they teach kids that “Sticks and stones...” anymore?
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