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Criminal Law And Procedure - Extradition Of A Juvenile Delinquent, Felicia I. Hmiel
Criminal Law And Procedure - Extradition Of A Juvenile Delinquent, Felicia I. Hmiel
Michigan Law Review
The state of Georgia, by an acting justice of peace of a county, charged a thirteen-year-old boy with the crime of assault with intent to murder. Under the Georgia Criminal Code the offense was punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of two to ten years. The boy was found in the state of New York, whereupon the governor of Georgia sent a requisition for extradition to the governor of New York. The boy defendant brought a habeas corpus proceeding in a New York court to obtain release from custody under the extradition warrant. Held, the defendant …
Expatriation Of American Minors, Lester B. Orfield
Expatriation Of American Minors, Lester B. Orfield
Michigan Law Review
The United States Supreme Court in May, 1939, handed down a vitally significant decision on the expatriation of American minors. Prior to that date, one was forced to deduce the law from conflicting decisions of the lower federal courts and of state courts, rulings by the departments of state, labor, and justice, and views of writers. This, therefore, seems an appropriate time at which to discuss the problems which have been raised and the solutions which have been offered.