Pink Underwear Can Have Legal Significance

My colleague Micheál P. O’Higgins knows the power of an arresting headline. An article by him in the fairly recent past was headed "The King of Swaziland's Tenth Wife, Habeas Corpus and the Irish Experience".

His article in the current edition of the "Bar Review" is entitled "Pink Underwear, the European Arrest Warrant and the Law of Extradition". It deals inter alia with an Irish High Court decision (The Attorney General v P.O.C [2005] IEHC 289) in which the sadistic sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona featured prominently.

In that case, O'Sullivan J. refused to order an extradition partly at least

"for the reason that [since his] incarceration is likely to breach his constitutional rights because of the inhuman conditions in Maricopa County jail, an order extraditing [him] would constitute a breach of those rights"