Ker v. Illinois

Infobox SCOTUS case
Litigants = Ker v. Illinois
ArgueDate =
ArgueYear =
DecideDate = December 6
DecideYear = 1886
FullName = Frederick Ker v. People of the State of Illinois
USVol = 119
USPage = 436
Citation = 7 S.Ct. 225; 30 L.Ed. 421
Prior = Writ of Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois
Subsequent =
Holding = There is no language in the 1870 Treaty of Extradition between the U.S. and Peru, which says in terms that a party fleeing from the U.S. to escape punishment for crime becomes thereby entitled to an asylum in the country to which Ker has fled.
SCOTUS = 1882-1887
Majority = Miller
JoinMajority = "unanimous court"
LawsApplied =

"Ker v. Illinois", 119 U.S. 436 (1886), is a U.S. Supreme Court case. It 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 with 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 governments had negotiated an extradition treaty a decade earlier—he found that there was no official to meet his request due to the recent Chilean military occupation of Lima. Rather than return home empty-handed, Julian kidnapped the fugitive, with assistance from Chilean forces, and placed him on a U.S. vessel heading back to the United States.

ee also

*List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 119
*Ker-Frisbie Doctrine
*"United States v. Rauscher", ussc|119|407|1886
*"Frisbie v. Collins", ussc|342|519|1952
*"United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez", ussc|494|259|1990
*"United States v. Alvarez-Machain", ussc|504|655|1992

Further reading

* cite journal | last = Fairman | first = Charles | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 1953 | month = | title = "Ker v. Illinois" Revisited | journal = The American Journal of International Law | volume = 47 | issue = 4 | pages = 678–686 | doi = 10.2307/2194916 | url = | accessdate = | quote =
* cite journal | last = Preuss | first = Lawrence | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 1935 | month = | title = Kidnaping of Fugitives from Justice on Foreign Territory | journal = The American Journal of International Law | volume = 29 | issue = 3 | pages = 502–507 | doi = 10.2307/2190429 | url = | accessdate = | quote =

External links

* [http://www.enfacto.com/case/U.S./119/436/ Ker v. Illinois, 119 U.S. 436 (1886)] (opinion full text).