Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2012-11-02 20:24:59+00
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FILED
                           NOT FOR PUBLICATION                              NOV 01 2012

                                                                        MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                       U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS

                            FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ROMAN WROCLAWSKI,                                No. 12-15113

              Petitioner - Appellant,            D.C. No. 2:09-cv-00977-ROS

  v.
                                                 MEMORANDUM *
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, United
States Secretary of State; ERIC H.
HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General; DAVID
GONZALES, United States Marshall,
District of Arizona, DAVID MARTIN,
Chief Pretrial Services Officer, District of
Arizona,

              Respondents - Appellees.

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                            for the District of Arizona
                  Roslyn O. Silver, Chief District Judge, Presiding

                      Argued and Submitted October 18, 2012
                            San Francisco, California

        *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
Before: WALLACE and BEA, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.**

      Petitioner-Appellant Roman Wroclawski (“Wroclawski”) appeals from the

district court’s denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus. Wroclawski’s

habeas petition challenges his certification of extraditability to Poland issued by a

magistrate judge acting as an extradition court. We have jurisdiction under 28

U.S.C. §§ 1291 and 2253(a), and we affirm.

      Wroclawski’s extradition is consistent with the applicable treaty.

Wroclawski has not demonstrated that the magistrate judge committed clear error

in the factual findings related to whether Poland charged Wroclawski with a

continual offense or whether Poland commenced proceedings against Wroclawski.

See Sainez v. Venables, 588 F.3d 713, 715 (9th Cir. 2009). Given the findings of

fact by the magistrate judge, and upon consideration of the related issues of law,

we conclude that the Polish statute of limitation has not run for the crimes charged.

See Quinn v. Robinson, 783 F.2d 776, 791–92 (9th Cir. 1986).

      Furthermore, Wroclawski has been charged with an offense that is

extraditable under the applicable treaty because the alleged crimes are punishable

under the laws of both the United States and Poland by a deprivation of liberty for

       **
             The Honorable Jane A. Restani, Judge for the U.S. Court of
International Trade, sitting by designation.

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a maximum period of more than one year. This determination does not depend on

any potentially applicable statute of limitations for analogous crimes in the United

States, the sentence Wroclawski may have received if he were prosecuted for an

analogous crime in the United States, or additional provisions of Polish law. In

addition, Poland supported its extradition request with the documents required by

the treaty.

         Finally, Wroclawski has not demonstrated that the magistrate judge violated

his procedural due process rights in making the factual findings related to whether

Wroclawski was charged with a continual offense or whether Poland commenced

proceedings. See Emami v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist., 834 F.2d

1444, 1448–49 (9th Cir. 1987) (citing In re Assarsson, 635 F.2d 1237, 1244 (7th

Cir. 1980)). The magistrate judge did not abuse her discretion in denying

Wroclawski’s discovery request because the requested documents have not been

shown to be relevant. See Prasoprat v. Benov, 421 F.3d 1009, 1014–16 (9th Cir.

2005).

The district court’s judgment denying appellant’s petition for habeas corpus is

AFFIRMED.

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