The 26-year-old man accused of gunning down UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson in Manhattan intends to fight his extradition to New York to face murder charges from Pennsylvania, where he was arrested, his defense lawyer Thomas Dickey said on Tuesday (December 10) . - REUTERS
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00:00We did not waive extradition, we're contesting extradition, we're going to fight this along
00:12the rules and with the constitutional protections that my client has, and that's what we're
00:17going to do.
00:18Well, like I said, because we have the constitutional right to do that, and that's what lawyers
00:21do, and I'm proud of that, and that's, like I said, we didn't get nothing, there was nothing
00:24in the courtroom.
00:25If you were there, you saw me object, I need to see evidence, we're entitled to see that,
00:30and we need to see that.
00:31If you're an American, you believe in the American criminal justice system, you have
00:34to presume him to be innocent, and none of us would want anything other than that if
00:38that were us in those shoes, and so I'm glad he had some support.