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Mexico Is No Longer Outlaw Central

Posted Apr 12, 08 5:31 AM CDT in US,  Crime & Courts 

(Newser) – It's getting harder for US crooks to hide out in Mexico—as Cpl. Cesar Laurean would no doubt attest, Patrick J. Lyons blogs in the New York Times. In fact, Mexico and Washington have extradited dozens of suspects every year since an old treaty was improved in 1995. But the pact includes one "politically fraught" detail: that if Mexico objects, the US cannot seek the death penalty in Laurean's case.

A North Carolina district attorney called it “very frustrating and disappointing," but said his “hands were tied” if he wanted the suspect returned, CNN reports. Laurean, accused of killing pregnant fellow Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, could also postpone extradition a year or more by appealing in Mexican courts. Still, "hoary movie clichés notwithstanding, Mexico these days offers no easy sanctuary from the long arm of American law," Lyons blogs.

Sources New York Times, CNN

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District Attorney Dewey Hudson.   (AP Photo/Logan Wallace)
Cpl. Cesar Armando Laurean.   (AP Photo/ U.S. Marine Corps)
Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach is seen.   (AP Photo)
The burned remains of Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, 20, and her fetus were found buried in this spot, one day after Cpl. Laurean, a fellow Marine she had accused of raping her, disappeared.   (AP Photo/Onslow County Sheriff)
Personnel with the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigations and Onslow County Sheriff's Department examine the site in the backyard of Marine Cpl. Cesar Armando Laurean.   (AP Photo/David Melvin)
Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean, left, is presented by police in Morelia, Mexico, Thursday, April 10, 2008.   (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
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