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Interstate Extradition

The process of one state surrendering a fugitive to another state, as governed by the US Constitution and federal law.

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Is there a law that states have to turn over illegal criminal?

, one state generally must deliver a person who fled to another state when the demanding state formally requests surrender; that duty is implemented by federal statutes (not optional private comity) a...