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By Nate Raymond and David Shepardson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court docket on Saturday gave the inexperienced mild for the extradition to Japan of an American father and son accused of serving to former Nissan (OTC:) Motor Co Ltd Chairman Carlos Ghosn flee that nation whereas awaiting trial on monetary misconduct prices.
In a quick order, Supreme Court docket Justice Stephen Breyer denied an emergency request by legal professionals for U.S. Military Particular Forces veteran Michael Taylor and his son, Peter Taylor, to placed on maintain a decrease court docket order that cleared the best way for them to be extradited.
The Taylors’ legal professionals in a late Thursday submitting reiterated arguments that their shoppers couldn’t be prosecuted in Japan for serving to somebody “bail bounce” and that, if extradited, they confronted the prospect of relentless interrogations and torture.
Attorneys for the Taylors didn’t instantly touch upon Saturday. The Japanese Embassy in Washington didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. A Justice Division spokeswoman declined to remark.
A federal appeals court docket in Boston had declined on Thursday to difficulty an order stopping the Taylors’ extradition whereas they appealed lower-court rulings. The U.S. State Division authorized their extradition in October.
“The very least the U.S. courts owe the petitioners is a full likelihood to litigate these points, together with exercising their appellate rights, earlier than they’re consigned to the destiny that awaits them by the hands of the Japanese authorities,” protection legal professionals wrote.
The Taylors had been arrested in Might at Japan’s request after being charged with serving to Ghosn flee Japan on Dec. 29, 2019, hidden in a field and on a personal jet earlier than reaching his childhood dwelling, Lebanon, which has no extradition treaty with Japan.
Ghosn was awaiting trial on prices that he had engaged in monetary wrongdoing, together with by understating his compensation in Nissan’s monetary statements. Ghosn denies wrongdoing.
Prosecutors stated the elder Taylor, a 60-year-old personal safety specialist, and Peter Taylor, 27, obtained $1.3 million for his or her companies.
The Taylors, who’ve been held with out bail since their arrests, waged a monthslong marketing campaign to press their case towards extradition within the courts, media, State Division and White Home with assistance from a set of high-powered legal professionals and lobbyists.
Their protection workforce included two legal professionals with ties to former President Donald Trump: Abbe Lowell, who has represented Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Ty Cobb, a former Trump White Home lawyer.
Ghosn has stated he has been serving to everybody who helped him. And in a court docket submitting, he sought to help the Taylors’ arguments towards extradition, saying he himself had confronted extended detention, psychological torture and intimidation in Japan and that the Taylors would face “related or worse.”
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