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Following an extradition hearing lasting 10 weeks, today New Zealand District Court Judge Nevin Dawson ruled that Kim Dotcom and his colleagues can indeed be extradited to the United States to face criminal charges. Speaking with TorrentFreak, Dotcom confirmed that an appeal to the High Court would go ahead.
[...] In a blow to the Megaupload founder and his former colleagues, Judge Dawson ruled that the quartet can indeed be sent to the United States to face charges of copyright infringement, conspiracy, money laundering and racketeering. Judge Dawson did not determine guilt or otherwise but found that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) had presented enough evidence for New Zealand to grant a request from the the United States to extradite. Dawson said that Dotcom and his colleagues had not done enough to undermine the case.
The defendants will be allowed to remain out on bail in the meantime. Although the judge acknowledged there was a high risk of flight, he noted that the four had all abided by the terms of their bail since they were arrested.
(Score: 2) by Lunix Nutcase on Wednesday December 23 2015, @08:32PM
We're not talking about James Madison.
We are taking about the Bill of Rights but not the guy who wrote the thing? LOL ok.
We're talking about what the constitution actually says.
And nowhere does it state that the Bill of Rights applies to foreigners.
Some of the founders violated the very constitution they created or claimed to support, so I extremely skeptical of the notion that we should be debating what they did or didn't say. We should more concerned with what made it into the document itself.
Ok, so please quote me the part of the Bill of Rights proclaiming that it applied to foreigners.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 23 2015, @08:39PM
We are taking about the Bill of Rights but not the guy who wrote the thing? LOL ok.
Yes. We're talking about what actually made it into the Bill of Rights.
And nowhere does it state that the Bill of Rights applies to foreigners.
Nowhere does it say it doesn't. It does, however, speak generally of some rights that people have, and it doesn't specifically mention citizens. That kind of disproves your point.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Leebert on Wednesday December 23 2015, @09:32PM
The Constitution enumerates the powers of the government, and the Bill of Rights specifically lays out rights reserved for the people and the states. As such, people already had those rights, the bill of rights just enshrined them. Unless the Constitution somehow revokes those rights for non citizens, they have them as well.
Do you think that a visitor to the country doesn't enjoy the right to remain silent when arrested? Or a right to free speech? They certainly don't have the right to not be deported, but while they're here they have all of the same basic rights as any other citizen, including the right to due process.