In re the Extradition of Santos

*1035 MEMORANDUM AND DECISION

Procedural History

The United States (the “government”) filed on behalf of Mexico a request for the extradition of Jose Luis Muñoz Santos (“Muñoz”) in 2006. Unlike most requests for extradition, this one has not gone smoothly. See In re Extradition of Santos, 473 F.Supp.2d 1030, 1036 (C.D. Cal. 2006) (“Not only did a Mexican court invalidate the first arrest warrant, but the second arrest warrant, which was obtained after Mexican prosecutors had notice of the defi *1036 ciencies in the first warrant, also was invalidated.”)- Eventually, after numerous continuances and other delays, this court certified Muñoz for extradition. As discussed at length in that decision, the principal evidence establishing probable cause to believe that Muñoz committed the charged offense—kidnapping—consists of statements by Jesus Servando Hurtado Osuna (“Hurtado”) and Fausto Librado Rosas Alfaro (“Rosas”), both of whom confessed to participating in the kidnaping and named Muñoz as a co-conspirator. See In re Extradition of Santos, 795 F.Supp.2d 966, 975-979 (C.D. Cal. 2011).

Muñoz filed a petition for a writ of ha-beas corpus, which was denied. Muñoz Santos v. Thomas,…