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06-04-2008, 06:32 AM
Marc Emery, Vancouver's self-styled Prince of Pot, has tentatively agreed to a five-year prison term in a plea bargain over U.S. money laundering and marijuana seed-selling charges.
Facing an extradition hearing Jan. 21 and the all-but-certain prospect of delivery to American authorities, Emery has cut a deal with U.S. prosecutors to serve his sentence in Canada. He also hopes it will save his two co-accused - Michelle Rainey and Greg Williams, who were his lieutenants for so much of the past decade.
The three were arrested in August 2005 at the request of the United States and charged even though none had ventured south of the border.
Extraterritorial jurisdiction? (http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/columnists/story.html?id=12d892dd-4d9c-41c2-89d7-098d16bf6d89)
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Facing an extradition hearing Jan. 21 and the all-but-certain prospect of delivery to American authorities, Emery has cut a deal with U.S. prosecutors to serve his sentence in Canada. He also hopes it will save his two co-accused - Michelle Rainey and Greg Williams, who were his lieutenants for so much of the past decade.
The three were arrested in August 2005 at the request of the United States and charged even though none had ventured south of the border.
Extraterritorial jurisdiction? (http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/columnists/story.html?id=12d892dd-4d9c-41c2-89d7-098d16bf6d89)
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