Rendition can also mean the act of rendering, i.e. delivering, a judicial decision, or of explaining a series of events, as a defendant or witness.
California Penal Code Section 1551.1 Arrest without warrant; grounds; taking prisoner before magistrate; complaint The arrest of a person may also be lawfully made by any peace officer, without a warrant, upon reasonable information that the accused stands charged in the courts of any other state with a crime punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, or that the person has been convicted of a crime punishable in the state of conviction by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year and thereafter escaped from confinement or violated the terms of his or her bail, probation or parole.
The United States exercised extraterritorial jurisdiction over John Surratt, a possible co-conspirator in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
A Pinkerton agent, Henry Julian, was hired by the federal government to collect larcenist Frederick Ker, who had fled to Peru.
Although Julian had the necessary extradition papers, he found that there was no official to meet his request due to the recent Chilean military occupation of Lima.
Rather than return home empty-handed, Julian kidnapped the fugitive, with assistance from Chilean forces, and placed him on a U.S. vessel heading back to the United States.
[7] Shirley Collins was abducted from a bus station in Chicago, Illinois due to being a suspect in a murder case in Michigan.
Francisco Toscanino was forcibly abducted from Italy and taken back to the US, due to being accused of intent to smuggle narcotics into the United States.
In Lujan, the defendant was abducted in a foreign country and brought to the United States to face prosecution for a narcotics violation.
[8] Human rights groups charge that extraordinary rendition is a violation of Article 3[9] of the United Nations Convention Against Torture (UNCAT), because suspects are taken to countries where torture during interrogation remains common,[10] thus circumventing the protections the captives would enjoy in the United States or nations who abide by the terms of UNCAT.
Its legality remains highly controversial, as the United States outlaws the use of torture, and the U.S. Constitution guarantees due process.
Many of the youth who spent time in these schools have spoken of being abducted during the night, while outside with friends, and (in one case) staying at their boyfriend's house.
The most famous of these companies is called Strawn Support Services and has agents working in every state of the US as well as in Latin American countries where WWASP schools are located.