The following excerpt is from Garcia v. Thomas, D.C. No. 2:08-cv-07719-MMM-CW, No. 09-56999 (9th Cir. 2012):
There is no constitutional or statutory command establishing a rule of non-inquirythat is, a rule precluding any substantive judicial inquiry into the likely fate of extradited criminal defendants.30 Rather, the traditional principle that has been dubbed the "rule of non-inquiry" developed as a judge-made doctrine, under which "[a]n extraditing court will generally not inquire into the procedures or treatment which await a surrendered fugitive in the requesting country." Arnbjornsdottir-Mendler v. United States, 721 F.2d 679, 683 (9th Cir. 1983).
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