Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, who was formerly a lawyer and a federal prosecutor who targeted Whites, and his Correctional Affairs Counsel, Joe West, both claimed that if another state asked for an Arkansas citizen to be extradited, they had no choice but to accede to that demand. That was why, allegedly, the governor refused Jacob Goodwin’s family’s plea that he meet with them, and ignored the petition signed by hundreds of concerned citizens that he delay or stipulate the extradition request of Jacob to Virginia. In a letter Hutchinson wrote to Jacob Goodwin’s mother, received on the day Jacob was extradited, he claimed that neither the merits of the case, nor claims that the person sought for arrest would not receive a fair trial in the pursuant state, mattered a whit.
That’s bullshit. Asa Hutchinson is either a liar or stupid. Or both. Joe West knows better, too, and his job is to advise his corrupt, dissembling boss of the law where it pertains to criminal justice matters. Or, to just follow orders, which makes him culpable in the dishonesty, as well. What is amazing is that the Arkansas governor would put such an outrageous statement in writing, and sign it, as he has done. That leaves him open to pointed ridicule, if not future litigation. Maybe then his lawyers will earn their money.
Are state boundaries mere formalities, just artificial lines on a map divided up for taxation purposes, with no real legal jurisdiction? If a governor cannot question, deny, or delay an extradition request, then why not do just away with the entire extradition process completely, and allow law enforcement officers from any jurisdiction to roam freely and arrest people wherever and whenever they find them, at will, without all that boring bureaucratic paperwork?
Now, observers of the Goodwin case understand that Asa, desperate to avoid the possibility of controversial news coverage, colluded with much of the left-wing statewide media to silence any coverage of Jacob’s extradition fight until he was safely removed from the state. In fact, creating a fake emergency rush, they extradited the young man under the cover of darkness from one jail to another, without his personal effects, on the pretext of wanting to avoid a rally they claimed was planned by Billy Roper and The ShieldWall Network on Jacob’s behalf. In truth, no rally was ever planned. But in order to pass the buck, and remove the hot potato issue from Arkansas’ jurisdiction, Jacob was hustled onto a plane instead of into a prisoner transport van as normally occurs, and as had been planned to transpire in his case, as well. Through multiple flight changes, banana republic style extraordinary rendition took Jacob Goodwin to first Texas, then North Carolina, then to Charlottesville, Virginia. There, his legal fight continues.
In case he was distractedly groping himself or someone else in law school, once again, just as Asa was informed in an open letter seen by tens of thousands of Arkansans a month ago, here is the precedential case law by which a state governor may contest, delay, or deny an extradition request:
According to Asa Hutchinson, no Arkansas citizen can expect any protection from the state of Arkansas from any attempt to arrest them by any other state, regardless of their guilt or innocence, or their likelihood to receive a fair trial once they are extradited. Think about that for a minute. Then re-read the decisions in the above cases, which establish precedent. The Arkansas Governor is Constitutionally incorrect, as well as being morally bankrupt.
But then, we already knew that, didn’t we?
And for all you colluding liberal media hacks who read this article, as you do each and every article on this blog, obviously, just remember; “first they came for Jacob Goodwin, and I did not protest, for I was not Alt Right…”
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