11.   Last year, Washington-based U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth cited the separation-of-powers argument when he declared the extradition law unconstitutional.

12.   President Ernesto Samper met with congressional leaders this morning in order to ensure swift passage of the extradition law, his office said.

13.   Rubinstein said that he had been working, in various positions, to change the extradition law for years.

14.   Samper, Colombian police, leading industrialists and presidential candidates all called on Congress to make the extradition law retroactive.

15.   The extradition law has so many exemptions, however, even Colombian legal experts dismissed it as useless.

16.   The raids are risky, require intimate international cooperation, and often run roughshod over asylum protection, extradition law, and other civil liberties.

17.   Under U.S. extradition laws, a defendant can only be tried on charges for which he was extradited.

18.   According to the Danish extradition law, a person can only be handed over to another country if his activities are illegal in Denmark.

19.   An extradition hearing is primarily a legal formality, where extradition law and issues of jurisdiction take precedence.

20.   Assistant U.S. Attorney Joel Levin argued extradition law demands that authorities take Smyth into custody until he is returned.