Ker v. Illinois
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ker-v-illinois-267-11459782
title:
Ker v. Illinois
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Ker v. Illinois, 119 U.S. 436 (1886), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court unanimously held that a fugitive kidnapped from abroad could not claim any violation of the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States. The incident that led to this decision involved a Pinkerton Detective Agency agent, Henry Julian, was hired by the federal government to collect a larcenist, Frederick Ker, who had fled to Peru. Although Julian had the necessary extradition papers—the two gove
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1886 U.S. Supreme Court case on the rights of forcibly-extradited fugitives
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ker_v._Illinois
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2023-09-13T02:28:59Z
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