Crime & Safety
US fugitive in Wall Shooting Fighting Extradition
George Wright, on the lam for 41 years, caught in Portugal last week
LISBON, Portugal — The lawyer for captured American fugitive George Wright on Thursday filed arguments in a Lisbon court against the 68-year-old's extradition.
The U.S. is trying to extradite Wright to serve the remainder of his 15- to 30-year sentence for a 1962 murder in Wall. .
Lawyer Manuel Luis Ferreira contends that Wright is now a Portuguese citizen and should be allowed to serve the remainder of his sentence in Portugal, where his wife and two grown children live.
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"At the heart of my argument is that he's Portuguese and he has a Portuguese family," Ferreira told The Associated Press.
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