Thread: State Lawmakers Want Mexico To Drop 'Dog' Charges

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Updated at 2:39 p.m., Friday, March 2, 2007

State lawmaker wants Mexico to drop 'Dog' charges

Advertiser Staff

A hearing in the Hawai'i House of Representatives is set for next week regarding extradition charges against TV bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman.
Rep. Gene Ward (R-Hawai'i Kai-Kalama Valley) last month introduced House Concurrent Resolution 50, requesting that the Legislature take a stand in support of Chapman by asking the Mexican government and courts to drop its extradition charges against him.

Chapman is expected to appear before the International Affairs Committee, which is hearing the measure at 9 a.m. Wednesday at the State Capitol, Room 329.

If the measured is backed by the committee, it will be referred to the House Judiciary Committee for a second hearing.

Chapman, along with his son Leland and colleague Timothy Chapman, stand accused of unlawfully depriving the freedom of international fugitive and convicted serial rapist Andrew Luster when the three caught up with him last year in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and attempted to take him to the United States. Luster is now serving a 124-year sentence in California.

In a news release, Ward said: "I have received testimony from all over the world on this issue, and it is not something the people of Hawai'i and the nation are taking lightly; the 'Dog' needs to be free from a Mexican jail."

Testimony for the hearing in the International Affairs Committee can be sent to Chair Representative Rida Cabanilla via faxed testimony at (80 586-6081 or e-mailed to repward@capitol.hawaii.gov.

Dog should not be sent to Mexico. Agreements state that the act must be a crime in both countries. Bounty hunting is not a crime in America. Once again DOJ and the state department are rewritting our laws to suit Mexico purposes.

Originally Posted by Beckyal

Dog should not be sent to Mexico. Agreements state that the act must be a crime in both countries. Bounty hunting is not a crime in America. Once again DOJ and the state department are rewritting our laws to suit Mexico purposes.

Yes, that's exactly what's happening. Mexico will not conform to what America was, a nation of laws. America must conform to what Mexico is, a lawless nation. A lawless and failed gubermint. That will allow Americas wealthy to become even wealthier and it's poor to become even more poor, just as it did in Mexico. It will also eliminate a need for having a lot of jails and prisons, isn't that what happens when criminals have more rights than the innocent?.