arrest and transfer to the United States were legal and
that the court had jurisdiction to try Noriega on the charges.7
In ancient Rome, defeated foreign leaders who were captured
were paraded through the streets of the city in chains before
they were fed to the lions. Telford Taylor, an authority on
international law and a prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials of
Nazi war criminals, said in 1961 that the civilized nations
gradually developed general principles regarded the application
by one country of its criminal laws to the citizens of other
countries. One such legal principle, which first appeared in the
Magna Charta in 1215 and the Sixth Amendment of the American
Constitution, was that a "man was entitled to be tried where his
offense was committed."8 Pirates, who committed crimes on the
high seas, were always triable anywhere under international law.
Were Noriega's Arrest and Kidnapping Lawful?
The Nuremberg trials and conventions adopted by the
General Assembly of the United Nations after World War II on
Genocide established the principle that perpetrators of crimes
against humanity could be tried, not only by courts i
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