An offender who prolongs extradition proceedings beyond what is reasonably necessary through meritless or repetitive legal challenges will not receive full credit for time spent in foreign custody. The court will evaluate the 'worth' of the opposition to extradition, analogously to evaluating a guilty plea, and may only credit time from arrest to the first extradition order where subsequent challenges lacked merit. The sentencing judge's view that policy considerations regarding resisting extradition were matters only for an appellate court was held to be in error.
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