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This article highlights a recent murder extradition case in Canada that consumed five years from 2014 through 2019 and overwhelming public legal and judicial resources to resolve. On September 17, 2014, Kevin David Patterson, 21, allegedly bludgeoned his roommate Richard Bergesen to death with a shovel in Washington state. Years following judicial orders denying him and ordering extradition, and successive appeals therefrom, Patterson began to claim recourse for numerous human rights violations. These alleged violations related to various complaints while in custody including the food served to him, institutional behavioral expectations, disrespect toward his expressed sexuality, and delay in transfer to another incarceration facility.