Will it complicate efforts to extradite Joran van der Sloot from Peru's Castro Castro prison to face wire fraud and extortion charges here in Birmingham?
Peru and The Netherlands agreed on an extradition treaty Thursday. �It still requires ratification by the Dutch Parliament and the Peruvian Congress.
�Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal and his Peruvian opposite number Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde signed a treaty on the transfer of sentenced persons and the enforcement of criminal judgments. �"The treaty allows residents of the Kingdom of the Netherlands who have been sentenced to prison by final and irrevocable judgment in Peru" to serve their sentence in the Netherlands, said Rosenthal.
The Dutch government says there are 117 Dutch citizens in prison in Peru, 113 on drug charges. �And then there's Joran van der Sloot.�
Van der Sloot's Peruvian lawyer, Max Altez, says how the proposed treaty affects his client depends on the length of sentence van der Sloot gets in his pending murder trial.
He's awaiting trial on charges he murdered a Peruvian college student he met at a poker tournament. �Peruvian investigators say van der Sloot confessed he killed Stephany Flores after she found material relating to Natalee Holloway on his laptop. �Flores body was found in van der Sloot's Lima hotel room five years to the day of Natalee's disappearance.
Altez said he would advise Van der Sloot to apply for extradition if he's convicted "under the violent emotion defense" -- meaning a jury could determine he snapped and killed Flores, but didn't plan it out. In that case, he'd likely get a three-to-five year sentence, which he wouldn't appeal, Altez said.
"If he gets a higher sentence" -- such as what amounts to premeditated murder -- "we will probably appeal" and not request extradition, said Altez. That's because once Van der Sloot leaves Peru to serve his time in the Netherlands, it would be more difficult to appeal his sentence.
Natalee vanished on a trip to Aruba in 2005 with other Mountain Brook High School grads. �She was last seen leaving a bar with van der Sloot and two of his friends. �Although he's still considered the prime suspect in the case, he was questioned but never charged by Aruban police.
A federal grand jury here in Alabama has indicted van der Sloot on wire fraud and extortion charges claiming he falsely promised to tell the Holloway family about Natalee's fate in exchange for money. �The feds say van der Sloot took the money but delivered no information.
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