What is the impact of unreliable or unreliable evidence on an extradition hearing?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from United States of America v. Huynh, 2006 CanLII 46789 (ON SC):
As Trafford J. recently held in the related case of United States of America v. Mach, [2006] O.J. No. 3204 at para. 9, “the extradition judge has a discretion to give no weight to unavailable, or otherwise unreliable, evidence in exercising the discretion conferred by s. 29 of the Act.”
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