Kidnapping Suspects Abroad: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session, June 22 and July 29, 1992U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993 - 307 Seiten |
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ABBELL action agents Alvarez decision American amicus curiae arrest Article Attorney authority Camarena Chairman Charter Committee CONFERENCIA Congress constitutional Convention Against Illicit COOPERACION cooperation Corte Court of Appeals crime criminal customary international law defendant Derecho DESARROLLO domestic law Drug Enforcement Administration EDWARDS Estados Unidos executive branch extradition treaty extraordinary rendition federal forcible abduction foreign governments GLENNON Government of Mexico Humberto Alvarez-Machain IBEROAMERICANA Illicit Traffic individual Inter-American Juridical Committee Interamericano INTERNACIONAL issue Judge Sofaer jurisdiction Ker-Frisbie doctrine kidnapping KOPETSKI KRECZKO law enforcement legislation LOWENFELD Machain Mansfield Amendment MCBRIDE Mexican Mexican government negotiated norms obligations offenses officials opinion PAISES Panetta Paquete Habana party person President principles prohibition prosecution protect question Rauscher remedy rendition respondent seizure Senate Sistema statement STEINHARDT subcommittee Supreme Court Supreme Court's decision testimony Thank tion Traffic in Narcotic U.S. Government U.S. Supreme Court United Nations Verdugo-Urquidez violation of international WASHINGTON
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 74 - International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination.
Seite 174 - Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retribution....
Seite 220 - It is agreed that the United States and Her Britannic Majesty shall, upon mutual requisitions by them, or their ministers, officers, or authorities, respectively made, deliver up to justice all persons who, being charged with the crime of murder...
Seite 300 - ... without exception whatsoever and whether or not the offence was committed in its territory, to submit the case to its competent authorities for the purpose of prosecution. Those authorities shall take their decision in the same manner as in the case of any ordinary offence of a serious nature under the law of that State.
Seite 38 - A treaty shall be interpreted in good faith in accordance with the ordinary meaning to be given to the terms of the treaty in their context and in the light of its object and purpose.
Seite 73 - Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security.
Seite 71 - The territory of a State is inviolable; it may not be the object, even temporarily, of military occupation or of other measures of force taken by another State, directly or indirectly, on any grounds whatever.
Seite 213 - The judgment of the Court of Appeals is therefore reversed, and the case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion. So ordered. Supreme Court of the United States No.
Seite 31 - Now the first and foremost restriction imposed by international law upon a State is that — failing the existence of a permissive rule to the contrary — it may not exercise its power in any form in the territory of another State.
Seite 220 - Provided, that this shall only be done upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged, shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime or offense had there been committed...