Friday, June 13, 2014

To Hell With Hilton

That would be Scotland then: 

"Mass. man fights extradition to Scotland on poison charge" Worcester Telegram & Gazette   June 06, 2014

A Massachusetts man fighting extradition to Scotland, where he faces attempted murder charges in allegedly poisoning the wine of a fellow college student, should not be sent overseas because he is mentally ill, his lawyer told a US appeals court Wednesday.

Alexander Hilton, 22, of Princeton takes several medications for numerous psychological conditions and is a suicide risk, lawyer Monica Shah told a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston.

There is no guarantee that if he is taken into custody by US or British authorities that he would continue to receive proper treatment, she said.

‘‘It’s like pulling the pin from a grenade and waiting for it to explode,’’ she told the court. 

It's the pharmaceuticals.

Hilton’s US constitutional rights would also be violated if he returns to Scotland, she added.

As if the U.S. government cared.

But the federal government could obtain information about Hilton’s ailments and ensure he gets proper treatment, Assistant US Attorney Theodore Heinrich countered.

Hilton was studying economics and computing at the University of St. Andrews in Fife, Scotland, in 2011 when he allegedly spiked another American’s wine with methanol, also called wood alcohol, according to prosecutors.

The students were playing drinking games in a dormitory before a ball, and Hilton told the student, Robert Forbes of Virginia, that the red wine was a gift, authorities said.

Forbes suffered severe nausea and headaches, temporarily lost vision, and would have died if he had not gone to the hospital, according to prosecutors.

Hilton is free on bail in the care of his parents.

Kid's family must have connections.

He is appealing a lower court’s ruling that he should be extradited to Scotland.

The appeals court did not immediately rule.

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Related: J.K. Rowling opposes Scottish split

I never read any of her books.

Also see: US Silent on Scottish Secession 

Time for me to secede from this post.