Overview
- The First Collegiate Court in Criminal and Labor Matters voted to grant amparo in review 329/2018, making the protection definitive.
- Magistrates concluded extraditing Eugenio Hernández would violate the non bis in idem principle because the same conduct was already prosecuted in Mexico.
- The decision nullifies the U.S. request tied to alleged conspiracy and money laundering and bars any handover to foreign authorities.
- The ruling adopts a 2018 criterion by Judge Eucario Adame Pérez interpreting Article 109, Section II, of the Constitution to forbid the transfer.
- The judgment, issued in Ciudad Victoria after a Dec. 12 public session, closes a federal battle that stretched more than six years.