I wonder if he still thought he got away with it when agreeing to extradition or saw it as his 15 minutes of fame.
I’ve wondered why he didn’t kill the roommate he encountered in the hallway on his way out. That makes it look like he was just targeting the three women. The boyfriend was in the way of getting one of the targets, otherwise it looks like he wasn’t interested in killing anyone else.
Perhaps he didn’t see her: it depends on what way you are looking and how much light there is.
Someone obsessed with one person and stalking them would surely be likely to follow their housemates on social media too.
He was wearing a mask and had already stowed his knife on his way out?
More about the suspect’s behavior around the time of the murders (gift link):
Doubtful: remember he left the knife sheath behind. If he would started stowing it he would find he no longer had the sheath–so would probably go back and look for it–he wouldn’t want to leave incriminating evidence behind.
Extradition is basically proforma. There is Supreme Court precedent that makes it basically impossible to fight extradition between states. I’m sure that was explained to him by his lawyer.
Still extradition can take many months. Locally I remember a case where a woman was to be extradited for murder to another state. But she liked being near her family here so she fought it. And it took at least 6 months (it had to go through the governor’s office and the office massively delayed the paperwork).
Not for things that are legal in the state a person is, but illegal in the requesting state. A state that makes abortion a felony would have a hell of a time extraditing a person from say California.
But murder is a given, except maybe for the DP.
Cite please. Specifically, cite that one US state can decline to extradite someone to another state just because (a) what they are charged with in the requesting state is not a crime in the other state, or (b) some hypothetical objection to the death penalty. Consider: Puerto Rico v. Branstad.
Now, I think I know what you are thinking-A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.
But in the case you cited- the crime was Homicide, which is a crime in both.
Say Jane who lives in Red state, goes to Blue state to have a legal abortion, which is illegal in Red state. No crime was committed in Blue state. Thus, no crime, thus no deportation.
Okay, say Red state makes it illegal to lave the state for an abortion? Nope, only the Feds can regulate inter-state commerce and transportation.
“There is not a huge amount of case law” on such matters because, “by and large, states have not tried to” regulate what other states do, said Mark D. Rosen, professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. “It reflects a certain ethic of interstate comity.”
“As a general matter, states cannot use ordinary criminal laws to prosecute people for crimes committed outside of their borders,” wrote David S. Cohen of Drexel University, Greer Donley of the University of Pittsburgh, and Rachel Rebouché of Temple University in a recent legal journal article.…
None of your cites support your proposition (which is unambiguously contrary to standing precedent allowing the federal government to enforce orders for extradition, unless challenged on very narrow grounds that do not include the death penalty being at issue or conduct not being a crime in the state from which extradition is sought), and all of them seem to deal with the emerging debate over abortion specifically, have not been challenged, and might as well be decided on grounds of jurisdiction (the extent to which states can criminalize conduct that occurs beyond their borders) as extradition law.
It’s okay to be wrong. No need to dig in on unsteady ground.
Moderating:
This is a thread about university students stabbed to death. We have lots of other threads to talk about abortion.
The general rules for extradition seem a little off topic, too.
Please drop the abortion digression and keep any extradition discussion relevant to the case.
One thing I’d like to see is/are the body-cam footage from his arrest. They broke into daddy’s house at 3am. Did daddy act surprised when Bryan was arrested?
Separately: Why did Bryan agree to postpone his arraignment for 5+ months. He claims he will be exonerated; no just “not guilty” but exonerated. Why would anyone who is truly innocent be willing to rot in jail for five unnecessary months?
Separately: Some have commented that he changed his license plate 8 days after the murder. i don’t consider that to be a material fact as his Pennsylvania registration was due to expire at the end of the month. This was also before the police announced they were looking for a white Hyundai
Typically, when your registration expires, you simply renew it and keep the same plates. Outside of maybe deciding to get vanity plates, have you ever known someone who did otherwise? I consider it very material. As in, hiding evidence potentially linking him to the crime. Still pretty stupid since, if they had a plate number, it would just be a matter of time before they tracked it back to owner at the time. Just because he did this before they announced a vehicle description shows that he was thinking ahead a bit. If was smarter, he would have switched plates with some stolen ones just before the killings and then switched them back. He is not the criminal genius that he thinks he is.
Now, if he was registering the car in Idaho, that changes things some. I don’t know how long was living in Idaho or if he was there only temporarily. So, while it may just be a coincidence that he changed his plates at this time, the prosecution could argue it is evidence of guilt and let the jury decide. No way it would excluded as not material.
I’ve lived in states where they replace the plates regularly. Maryland, maybe? I don’t know how they do it is his state. But I agree, typically, you just get a new sticker to put on the old plate.
I seem to recall his car was registered in PA. Makes sense that, after moving to WA, he’d simply have it registered there. Whether he could have, as a student, maintained his PA registry would be beside the point. Sometimes it’s just easier to start over, rather than jump through whatever hoops are necessary to have one’s address change, then rely on the postal service to (hopefully, eventually) mail you whatever new forms/stickers are required.
All that to say, I think the vehicle registration change is just a coincidence.
In my state (Kansas) you used to get a new plate with a new number every five years (you still get a new plate, but now you have the option of reordering the same number). Without knowing specifically how PA does it, the change may or may not be anything he had control over.