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Her formepatagonia better sweater womenr husband, Benjamin Harris Todd III of Johns Island, had custody of their infant daughter Savanna in April 1994, when Barnpatagonia better sweater beanieett left her beachside home with the girl during a supervised vipatagonia everlong review xenical3sit and fled oversees, according to the allegations.
The Australian Broadcasting Corp. Australian Federal Justice Minister Michael Keenan told the news agency in a statement that he decided last month to have Barnett sent to South Carolina after careful consideration of the provisions of Australia s extradition law and of the attorneys arguments.
The extradition decision came durinpatagonia black hole duffel reviewg the same month when a federal judge in Charleston blocked an attempt by Barnett s Myrtle Beach attorney, Russell W. Mace III, to dismiss the kidnapping charge by citing a statute of limitations and to throw out the two passport counts by arguing that the government lacked jurisdiction. District Judge Richard Gergel said in an Aug. 12 ruling that it would be premature to address the motion to drop the charges until the defendant has actually appeared in court here.
Jury selection, which was scheduled to start next week in downtown Charleston, also has been postponed, court documents stated.
Once Barnett is brought to South Carolina, her case should proceed along the normal criminal docket timeline, Williams said Thursday.
But when Barnett would returnpatagonia everlong review xenical0 to South Carolina remained uncertain.
It could be anywhere from next week to two months, her attorney, Mace, said.
Mace declined to comment further until his client s case is taken up by the court here. He still intends to mount legal challenges to her charges, he said.
He had argued in court documents that while a warrant was issued for Barnett s arrest on April 28, 1994, for the alleged kidnapping offense that month, the filing was then terminated on Oct. 28, 2010.
A formal indictment wasn t returned until April 11, 2012, and by then, a six month period in which prosecutors could refile a warrant under stapatagonia outlet store 01935tute of limitations requirements also had passed, Mace said.
The kidnapping charge should then be dismissed, Mace argued, due to the nearly 18 year delay in the filing of the instant indictment.
The judge sided with Williams response to Mace s proposal.
Williams wrote in an Aug. 5 filing that it would be too early to rule on such actions, especially since there is no certainty when, or even if, she will be extradited to the United States.
The prosecutor also deflected Mace s argument about the statute of limitations, saying that keeping Savanna outside the country until her 16th birthday was illegal.
After a tip fielded by Barnett s ex husbapatagonia everlong review electric shaversnd, Australian police and FBI agents caught up with her in November in Queensland, where shepatagonia everlong review movies has been jailed ever since.
Todd, Savanna s father, has since contacted his daugpatagonia everlong review xenical2hter, now a 21 year old college studepatagonia everlong review xenicalnt known as Samantha Geldenhuys. She has voiced support for her mother.
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