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To: Carolyn who wrote (22310)	7/11/2001 12:58:04 PM
From: Sarkie	Read Replies (2) of 225578

This is about time. go2net.com French High Court Told to Extradite U.S. Fugitive Jul 11 11:03am ET PARIS (Reuters) - A lawyer at France's highest administrative court recommended on Wednesday that ex-hippie guru Ira Einhorn should be extradited to the United States to face a new trial for the 1977 murder of his girlfriend. The Council of State was examining Einhorn's appeal against an extradition order signed by Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. Emmanuelle Prada-Bordenave, who assessed the legal arguments on behalf of the Council, recommended the appeal be rejected. The Council should announce its decision by the end of the week. If it rules in favor of extradition, no further appeal would be possible in France. Einhorn fled the United States in 1981 just before he was scheduled to go on trial for the murder of Holly Maddux. A Pennsylvania court tried him in his absence in 1993 and found him guilty of bludgeoning Maddux to death and stuffing her body into a trunk in his Philadelphia apartment, where it remained for 18 months until found by police. Einhorn was later found living in a French village. He has always denied the murder, saying that he was framed because he was an anti-Vietnam War activist. He avoided extradition by arguing he could be sentenced to death if sent home. After years of legal wrangling, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin signed an extradition order in July last year following assurances from the United States that Einhorn would receive a fresh trial and would not face the death penalty if convicted again. France abolished capital punishment in 1981 and refuses to extradite suspects to countries where they could be sentenced to death. Einhorn subsequently appealed to the Council of State, arguing that the American authorities had deceived Jospin and that U.S. law made it impossible for him to have a new trial. Prada-Bordenave said the U.S. assurances were sufficient. Einhorn was not present at the hearing. He is currently under house arrest in a village in western France.

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