Re: Will Amnesty International be taking up the case of DavidCarruthers of BetOnSports?

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Brian Loe wrote:

> How many states still don't have "riverboat" gambling?
>
> Of course we want it here, and the states want it in their states -
> and the Indians REALLY want it!
>
> Our problem is some "moral hurdle" we have to make it over to get
> gambling legal, however, like the lottery and the boats and casinos on
> Indian reservations. I don't know why we put that hurdle up but
> apparently we do.
>
> Question I have here is: how did this guy break a US law from the UK?

You can break the law of country X while standing in country Y.  For 
example, if you throw a stone across the border, deliberately, in order to 
smash someone's window.

If the act is a crime in *both* countries, then country Y will normally 
extradite the perp to country X to stand trial there. If it's not a crime 
in country Y, then they normally won't extradite.

In this case, it's alleged that Carruthers broke the law in the USA. If 
the US had tried to extradite him from Gibraltar (or the UK), chances are, 
the extradition would have failed, because what he's done isn't illegal 
here. So, they waited until he was on US soil and collared him there.

In their flotation document, they acknowledged that what they were doing 
was probably illegal in the US. So, he's an idiot for flying via the USA.



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