technically, this is incorrect as a matter of law. the Supreme Court did not treat the World Court's Interim Order of Protection to be binding, and incorrectly so after the Judgment in the La Grande case that such Interim Orders are binding. In any event, Mexico won a Judgment against the United States which is binding under the United Nations Charter. fab.
Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign, IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (voice) 217-244-1478 (fax) fbo...@law.uiuc.edu (personal comments only) -----Original Message----- From: sandrine.ageor...@free.fr [mailto:sandrine.ageor...@free.fr] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 2:14 PM To: deathpenalty...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [deathpenaltyusa] Mexican government files brief in U.S. death penalty case MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.5 X-Originating-IP: 24.238.216.185 Mexican government files brief in U.S. death penalty case ASSOCIATED PRESS 1:20 p.m. January 26, 2005 MEXICO CITY - Mexico has filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to help block the execution of a Mexican national, the Foreign Relations Department announced Wednesday. In a news release, the department said it filed the brief on Tuesday to support Jose Ernesto Medellin, who was sentenced to death for raping and murdering two teenage girls in 1993 in Texas. The brief argues that the United States should accept the ruling of the World Court that the sentences of Medellin and 50 other Mexican death row inmates should be reviewed because U.S. officials ignored their Geneva Convention right to consular representation when they were arrested. However the United States does not consider World Court rulings binding. The Supreme Court last month agreed to hear Medellin's appeal. Supporters of a review for Medellin argued that U.S. failure to enforce rights for foreigners in the United States would endanger Americans arrested abroad, who depend on similar rights to contact U.S. diplomats for help. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20050126-1320-mexico-us-deathpenal ty.html ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Give the gift of life to a sick child. Support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's 'Thanks & Giving.' http://us.click.yahoo.com/lGEjbB/6WnJAA/E2hLAA/nbTolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deathpenaltyusa/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: deathpenaltyusa-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
