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Fugitives are often profiled in the media in order to be apprehended, such as in the TV show America's Most Wanted.. A fugitive or runaway is a person who is fleeing from custody, whether it be from jail, a government arrest, government or non-government questioning, vigilante violence, or outraged private individuals.
Rendition can also mean the act of rendering, i.e. delivering, a judicial decision, or of explaining a series of events, as a defendant or witness. It can also mean the execution of a judicial order by the directed parties. But extraordinary rendition is distinct from both deportation and extradition, being inherently illegal. [1]
Ali al-Wa'eli is an Arab fugitive from Yemen who was formerly on the "Seeking Information" lists, [182] and been wanted since 11 February 2002 by the United States Department of Justice's FBI. Ali al-Wa'eli was identified as a known associate of the Yemen cell leader and al-Qaeda terrorist, Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei .
Although the order following the extradition hearing is not appealable (by either the fugitive or the government), the fugitive may petition for a writ of habeas corpus as soon as the order is issued. [15] The district court's decision on the writ is subject to appeal, and the extradition may be stayed if the court so orders. [15]
The meaning of the Extradition Clause was first tested before the Supreme Court in the case of Kentucky v. Dennison (1861). The case involved a man named Willis Lago who was wanted in Kentucky for helping a slave girl escape. He had fled to Ohio, where the governor, William Dennison, Jr., refused to extradite him back to Kentucky.
Although the Fugitive Felon Act de jure applies to all state felonies, including parental kidnapping, the United States Department of Justice de facto set an exception for such cases until the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act was passed in 1980. The PKPA explicitly stated that the Fugitive Felon Act applied to parental kidnapping cases. [13]
Other terms include to skip trace, or debtor and fugitive recovery. [2] A skip tracer is someone who performs this task, which may be the person's primary occupation. The term skip (as a noun) refers to the person being searched for, and is derived from the idiomatic expression "to skip town", meaning to depart (perhaps in a rush or perhaps hoping to elude creditors or law enforcement).
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 was an Act of the United States Congress to give effect to the Fugitive Slave Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3), which was later superseded by the Thirteenth Amendment, and to also give effect to the Extradition Clause (Article 4, Section 2, Clause 2). [1]