A U.S. court docket determined Thursday to proceed to detain a 17-year-old suspect concerned in a hit-and-run accident in Istanbul, Türkiye.
At a listening to in Boston, Massachusetts, Chief Magistrate Judge Donald Cabell dominated for Timur Cihantimur to stay in custody through the extradition course of.
Appearing earlier than the choose for the second time on costs of “involuntary manslaughter and injury,” legal professionals for Cihantimur argued that the circumstances on the juvenile detention middle within the state of Connecticut the place their consumer is being held will not be appropriate.
They requested for Cihantimur to be positioned below home arrest first, or if not, transferred to a extra appropriate place in Massachusetts.
However, the prosecutor opposed home arrest, saying that Cihantimur posed a flight threat, and insisted that the circumstances on the detention middle are appropriate for him.
After an hour-long listening to, Cabell mentioned he wanted time to judge the substantial quantity of knowledge shared from each events and dominated for the continued detention of Cihantimur.
On March 1, three all-terrain autos (ATVs) had been travelling in Istanbul’s Eyüpsultan district when one in every of them broke down. Cihantimur, who was driving his dad and mom’ SUV and not using a license, crashed into the ATVs, injuring 5 individuals. One of them, Oğuz Murat Aci, later succumbed to his accidents.
Cihantimur left the scene of the accident along with his mom in her car and travelled to Egypt after which to the U.S.
Temporary arrest request paperwork for his or her extradition had been forwarded to U.S. authorities by Türkiye’s Justice Ministry.
Source: www.anews.com.tr