Strange legal cases

Strange legal cases

In Indonesia guru means a school teacher but in America a guru
is a person who gives religious or spiritual guidance to his or
her many followers.

The Dec. 15 edition of Newsweek reported that such a guru in
America had a relationship with a girl, who was later found dead
in the guru's apartment. He fled to France and subsequently
married a Swedish woman.

Naturally, the United States requested the French government
to extradite the guru. But the unbelievable happened. The French
court, after refusing to extradite the murderer, instead declared
the guru a free man.

CNN had another story on Dec. 14 in which a suspected murderer
in the United States fled to Mexico. The Mexican government
rejected the U.S. request to extradite the suspect because the
man would have faced the death penalty in the United States if
found guilty.

The wonders of the world are endless.

A. DJUANA

Jakarta