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This is a rather emotive subject, but there are a few facts that seem to be glossed over.
RP pleaded guilty to one out of six charges, in return for the other five being dropped. The one he pleaded guilty to was the equivelent of statutory rape.
The plea deal agreed to by all relevent parties saw RP sentenced to a 90 day psych evaluation at a prison. *This bit is important for later* He did the evaluation, and was released early. (After only 40 odd days, IIRC)
In the mean time, the judge decided (against due process) that RP just doing an eval wasn't punishment enough, and told the lawyers he was sentencing him to prison time.
Consider - everyone agreed to a plea deal, including the judge and RP. The plea deal included the punishment (which, IMO, was fscking offensively light). The judge, after signing off on the agreement, went back and decided that more punishment was needed.
Now, since he'd pleaded guilty, RP couldn't legally fight the punishment.
He skipped the country, and thumbed his nose at the US. (Ok, that bit may just be my opinion...)
Fast forward. The Swiss court decided that, since the US didn't/couldn't produce some requested papers, the sentence RP completed (the psych eval) was considered the whole sentence. As such, they came to the conclusion that he'd done his time for doing the crime.
Agree or disagree, due process was not followed for RP. And that's what the Swiss looked at when they through the extradition case out.
RP pleaded guilty to one out of six charges, in return for the other five being dropped. The one he pleaded guilty to was the equivelent of statutory rape.
The plea deal agreed to by all relevent parties saw RP sentenced to a 90 day psych evaluation at a prison. *This bit is important for later* He did the evaluation, and was released early. (After only 40 odd days, IIRC)
In the mean time, the judge decided (against due process) that RP just doing an eval wasn't punishment enough, and told the lawyers he was sentencing him to prison time.
Consider - everyone agreed to a plea deal, including the judge and RP. The plea deal included the punishment (which, IMO, was fscking offensively light). The judge, after signing off on the agreement, went back and decided that more punishment was needed.
Now, since he'd pleaded guilty, RP couldn't legally fight the punishment.
He skipped the country, and thumbed his nose at the US. (Ok, that bit may just be my opinion...)
Fast forward. The Swiss court decided that, since the US didn't/couldn't produce some requested papers, the sentence RP completed (the psych eval) was considered the whole sentence. As such, they came to the conclusion that he'd done his time for doing the crime.
Agree or disagree, due process was not followed for RP. And that's what the Swiss looked at when they through the extradition case out.
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