Remember the scene in Batman (The Dark Knight) when Bruce Wayne kidnapped the corrupt businessman from Hong Kong and brought him back to Gotham City to stand trial? Harvey Dent said, "I don't know about Mr. Lau's travel arrangements, but I'm sure glad he's...
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Remember the scene in Batman (The Dark Knight) when Bruce Wayne kidnapped the corrupt businessman from Hong Kong and brought him back to Gotham City to stand trial? Harvey Dent said, "I don't know about Mr. Lau's travel arrangements, but I'm sure glad he's here." Unfortunately, Batman does not exist; but what if the U.S. government was to abduct a foreign national in his/her home country -- a country the U.S. had an extradition treaty with -- and bring him/her back to the U.S. to stand trial? Would that be legal? Twenty-five years ago, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that it was. This ten-page paper recounts the story of Humberto Álvarez-Machaín and his legal battles in the Supreme Court of the Unites States.
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