Court Denies Discovery in Mexican Extradition Request Case

On January 8, 2010, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a memorandum opinion, denying a discovery request by the relator, Zhenly Ye Gon, who is fighting extradition to Mexico. Already on May 13, 2009, the court issued a Memorandum Opinion in which it denied Zhenly Ye Gon’s request for discovery, concluding that extradition could not be conditioned upon discovery from Mexico, the requesting state. The opinion concluded that any “right” to discovery could at most extend to discovery from the U.S. itself. The court, in that opinion, reviewed each of the discovery demands made and concluded that the relator’s “demands for discovery would fail even if this Circuit were to ultimately conclude that limited discover from the United States itself may be permitted in an extradition matter.”...more...