Ethan Ralph, Fugitive from Justice

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Question for legal experts: does the local American consulate and/or embassy in the Yucatan fall within the scope of this warrant even though it is not technically a part of the United States?

Ethan recently admitted that his Virginia driver's license has lapsed and that he's now stuck with an international driver's license. He also lost his passport on one of his recent trips to San Diego. The only American ID he still has is his passport card, and he has complained that he needs to go to the consulate in person to get a new passport book. Given his propensity for losing ID, if he can't replace his documents without the chance of being detained by the American authorities at the consulate, he might be in real trouble.

Mexico itself won't extradite over a misdemeanor, but these staff members and security forces aren't Mexican law enforcement, they're agents of the US government. Does anyone know for sure what the full scope of this type of seemingly unusual warrant is?
 
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Sean/Potentially Criminal brought up the point that this is technically a free speech issue because, according to him, Imholte's hearing was publicly broadcast, and Ralph's charged because he re-broadcasted it, against the court's wishes.

I'm not familiar with the background of the Amholte broadcast or the charges against Ralph, I'm just repeating what Sean had said on Kino Casino.
 
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Null said:
States almost never post misdemeanors warrants in neighboring states, nevermind the entire country.
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I don't know that this is the case. As someone who's had some run-ins with the law I've had cops inform me I have petty warrants in states across the country but obviously they wouldn't be transporting me for them. From my experience and what I've seen cops are completely unwilling to do anything about warrants under a felony level, especially not something so petty it only has a 90 day max sentence, which is really only a 30 day max sentence since most jails offer around a 3-for-1 good time credits for trustees in on misdemeanors.
Funny incident but I doubt Ralph is going to jail
 
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Anne Hathaway Fan Fan said:
I don't know that this is the case. As someone who's had some run-ins with the law I've had cops inform me I have petty warrants in states across the country but obviously they wouldn't be transporting me for them. From my experience and what I've seen cops are completely unwilling to do anything about warrants under a felony level, especially not something so petty it only has a 90 day max sentence, which is really only a 30 day max sentence since most jails offer around a 3-for-1 good time credits for trustees in on misdemeanors.
Funny incident but I doubt Ralph is going to jail
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None of your warrants were made national. I don't know how many times I'll have to repeat myself to you.
 
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Haru Okumura said:
Question for legal experts: does the local American consulate and/or embassy in the Yucatan fall within the scope of this warrant even though it is not technically a part of the United States?

Ethan recently admitted that his Virginia driver's license has lapsed and that he's now stuck with an international driver's license. He also lost his passport on one of his recent trips to San Diego. The only American ID he still has is his passport card, and he has complained that he needs to go to the consulate in person to get a new passport book. Given his propensity for losing ID, if he can't replace his documents without the chance of being detained by the American authorities at the consulate, he might be in real trouble.

Mexico itself won't extradite over a misdemeanor, but these staff members and security forces aren't Mexican law enforcement, they're agents of the US government. Does anyone know for sure what the full scope of this type of seemingly unusual warrant is?
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I don't think they'd issue him a new passport/ID if he has an active warrant at least, not sure if they'd hold him there.

I guess Ralph can just stay in Mexico illegally until the statute of limitations runs out in like five years or whatever it is for Minnesota. Or he'll sneak back into the US like a fuckin beaner and possibly die of thirst in the middle of the desert.

Ethan Ralph: Neutral Ending

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Null said:
If he has a passport card he can drive into the US from Mexico but not fly. Is this the case? Most people do not opt for the card. It costs extra and has little purpose to most people.
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That's my understanding, yes. It's why he goes through the whole multi-step process of flying to Tijuana, crossing the border by land, and then heading up to San Diego from there. It takes him 2-3 days to make a trip that a regular person could do in a few hours because he can't fly directly with only the passport card and not the book.
 
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Haru Okumura said:
That's my understanding, yes. It's why he goes through the whole multi-step process of flying to Tijuana, crossing the border by land, and then heading up to San Diego from there. It takes him 2-3 days to make a trip that a regular person could do in a few hours because he can't fly directly with only the passport card and not the book.
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Why didn't he just get a new book???
 
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Null said:
Why didn't he just get a new book???
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I honestly don't know. He was complaining about the logistical difficulty of it for a while, acknowledging that he should get another book but that he'd have to take time off from streaming to deal with it. Frankly, he was so reticent to get it over with that I've always wondered if there was some other unstated hurdle that was in his way. It seems strange to me too because it would save him a ton of time and effort and justify undergoing the process almost immediately.

For all we know he has applied for a replacement passport already and it's just stuck in the (long) queue for processing these requests, but given how much he was complaining about the process like it was straight out of Kafka, I'm not confident that this is the case. Maybe he can't renew it and has to apply from scratch for some reason...that's total speculation, though. He's very cagey about anything related to what happened to the book to begin with so it's hard to get to the bottom of this issue.
 
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BigPeanut said:
The thing of interest isn’t that we believe he will be extradited, it’s that he can never visit the US (which he does frequently) EVER again unless he wants to go to court in Minnesota.
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He can enter the US, just not though legal methods. I am looking forward to a long and entertaining fugitive arc. I hope he hires some coyotes to smuggle his fat gringo ass across the boarder so he can go hang out with Juju or try to visit Xander.
 
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FILTH Tourist said:
He can enter the US, just not though legal methods. I am looking forward to a long and entertaining fugitive arc. I hope he hires some coyotes to smuggle his fat gringo ass across the boarder so he can go hang out with Juju or try to visit Xander.
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If he's smart (which he's not), he'd avoid visiting anyone he knows in the US. The amount of people that would sell his fat ass up the river is staggering.
 
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