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citation: "18 U.S.C. §§ 3188–3191"
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release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3188..3191"
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# §3188. Time of commitment pending extradition


Whenever any person who is committed for rendition to a [foreign government](/usc/18/11.md) to remain until delivered up in pursuance of a requisition, is not so delivered up and conveyed out of the [United States](/usc/18/5.md) within two calendar months after such commitment, over and above the time actually required to convey the prisoner from the jail to which he was committed, by the readiest way, out of the [United States](/usc/18/5.md), any judge of the [United States](/usc/18/5.md), or of any [State](/usc/18/402.md), upon application made to him by or on behalf of the person so committed, and upon proof made to him that reasonable notice of the intention to make such application has been given to the Secretary of State, may order the person so committed to be discharged out of custody, unless sufficient cause is shown to such judge why such discharge ought not to be ordered.


# §3189. Place and character of hearing


Hearings in cases of extradition under treaty stipulation or convention shall be held on land, publicly, and in a room or office easily accessible to the public.


# §3190. Evidence on hearing


Depositions, warrants, or other papers or copies thereof offered in evidence upon the hearing of any extradition case shall be received and admitted as evidence on such hearing for all the purposes of such hearing if they shall be properly and legally authenticated so as to entitle them to be received for similar purposes by the tribunals of the foreign country from which the accused party shall have escaped, and the certificate of the principal diplomatic or consular [officer](/usc/18/202.md?p=c) of the [United States](/usc/18/5.md) resident in such foreign country shall be proof that the same, so offered, are authenticated in the manner required.


# §3191. Witnesses for indigent fugitives


On the hearing of any case under a claim of extradition by a [foreign government](/usc/18/11.md), upon affidavit being filed by the person charged setting forth that there are witnesses whose evidence is material to his defense, that he cannot safely go to trial without them, what he expects to prove by each of them, and that he is not possessed of sufficient means, and is actually unable to pay the fees of such witnesses, the judge or magistrate judge hearing the matter may order that such witnesses be subpenaed; and the costs incurred by the process, and the fees of witnesses, shall be paid in the same manner as in the case of witnesses subpenaed in behalf of the [United States](/usc/18/5.md).