Court Opinion

ID: 9693465
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Date Created: 2023-08-25 16:42:58.393683+00
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Cotter, C. J.
(concurring). In concurring with the majority opinion I would like to stress the fact that the discharge in a prior habeas corpus proceeding of one held for extradition generally bars later proceedings within the same jurisdiction based on identical issues and evidence. The earlier judgment is res judicata only with regard to the issues of law and fact necessarily involved in the finding that the prisoner was illegally in custody at the time. Collins v. Loisel, 262 U.S. 426, 430, 43 S. Ct. 618, 67 L. Ed. 1062 (1923) (Brandeis, J.). The res judicata bar does not apply in cases where the first *475discharge was granted because of insufficient process or a procedural error. Ex parte Schorer, 195 F. 334, 338 (E.D. Wis. 1912); State ex rel. Cacciatore v. Drumbright, 116 Fla. 496, 156 So. 721 (1934); Kurtz v. State, 22 Fla. 36 (1886) (defective commitment); People ex rel. Ritholz v. Sain, 26 Ill. 2d 455, 187 N.E.2d 241 (1963) (no bar to second requisition charging the same crime but eliminating the defects that made the first requisition insufficient); People ex rel. Mark v. Toman, 362 Ill. 232, 236-37, 199 N.E. 124 (1935) (warrant and affidavit disagreed and thus were insufficient requisition papers); In re Crandall, 59 Kan. 671, 676, 54 P. 686 (1898); In re Maldonado, 364 Mass. 359, 364, 304 N.E.2d 419 (1973); In re Ray, 215 Mich. 156, 183 N.W. 774 (1921); Debski v. State, 115 N.H. 673, 348 A.2d 343 (1975) (second discharge denied where initial discharge based on fact that the governor had not yet issued the warrant required); People ex rel. Grant v. Doherty, 42 Misc. 2d 239, 245, 247 N.Y.S.2d 759, rev’d on other grounds, 21 App. Div. 2d 829, 251 N.Y.S.2d 596 (1964); Bebeau v. Granrud, 184 N.W.2d 577 (N.D. 1971) (no res judicata bar, first discharge grounded upon failure to serve the governor’s rendition warrant within the thirty day statutory period); State ex rel. Yarbrough v. Snider, 465 P.2d 739 (Or. App. 1970) (no res judicata bar, first discharge based upon failure to authenticate documents from the demanding state); Commonwealth ex rel. Edgar v. Davis, 425 Pa. 133, 137, 228 A.2d 742 (1967); Commonwealth ex rel. Douglass v. Aytch, 225 Pa. Super. 195, 310 A.2d 313 (1973).
In this case, the grant of the habeas corpus discharge upon the first warrant was on procedural grounds; viz: the technical defect. The second *476warrant is enforceable only because the disposition on the first warrant was on procedural rather than substantive grounds. The first adjudication did not decide the issues of law and fact involved in the second warrant. The fact that a prisoner held for extradition has been discharged through habeas corpus proceedings is not a bar to a second application or requisition for extradition where the discharge was for an irregularity in the extradition proceeding which is corrected in the second requisition. 33 A.L.R.3d 1446, “Habeas Corpus Discharge—Extradition Bar” § 4; 39 Am. Jur. 2d, Habeas Corpus § 161; 39A C.J.S., Habeas Corpus § 228 and cases cited above.
In this opinion Healey and Parskey, Js., concurred.