context: [P 13.] Several jurisdictions, under statutes awarding costs of "investigation or prosecution," have held that costs of prosecution include extradition costs.
citation_a.signal: cf.
citation_a.parenthetical: cost of extraditing a defendant after he escaped from custody and fled the jurisdiction were not costs of prosecution, and were properly chargeable to him as restitution owed to the Department of Corrections, the victim of his crime of escape
citation_a.sentence: Cf. State v. Lewis, 167 Vt. 533, 711 A.2d 669, 673 (1998) (cost of extraditing a defendant after he escaped from custody and fled the jurisdiction were not costs of prosecution, and were properly chargeable to him as restitution owed to the Department of Corrections, the victim of his crime of escape).
citation_b.signal: no signal
citation_b.identifier: 21 N.W.2d 593, 593
citation_b.parenthetical: where defendant was charged in Nebraska, arrested in South Dakota and extradited to Nebraska, noting the Nebraska court required him to "pay the costs of the criminal prosecution including the costs of the first extradition."
citation_b.sentence: Maupin, 801 P.2d at 487; State v. Balsam, 130 Ariz. 452, 636 P.2d 1234, 1235 (Ct.App.1981) (sum expended to send a deputy sheriff to Ohio, where defendant was arrested, and bring him back to Arizona for prosecution was a prosecution cost); Skillman v. State, 696 So.2d 1341, 1342 (Fla.Dist.Ct.App.1997); People v. Lemons, 824 P.2d 56 (Colo.Ct.App.1991) (extradition cost to bring defendant to answer charges was a cost of prosecution and improperly designated as restitution to the police department which did not fall into “victim” category); Comm’wlth v. Coder, 490 Pa. 194, 415 A.2d 406, 409 (1980) (statute providing for recoupment from defendant of prosecution costs interpreted as encompassing cost of extradition); Ex parte Williams, 71 S.D. 95, 21 N.W.2d 593, 593 (1946) (where defendant was charged in Nebraska, arrested in South Dakota and extradited to Nebraska, noting the Nebraska court required him to “pay the costs of the criminal prosecution including the costs of the first extradition.”).