Colombia extradition to the United States runs on Colombian constitutional and criminal-procedure law first - Article 35 of the Constitution and the Código de Procedimiento Penal - not on treating the 1979 bilateral treaty as a free-floating domestic statute. The Corte Suprema de Justicia reviews extradition. The President then issues the executive surrender decision. For conduct after 17 December 1997, Colombian nationals can be extradited. Garantías on life imprisonment and the death penalty sit at the center of high-stakes packages. Spodek Law Group P.C. fights Bogotá while preparing Miami, Houston, or New York dockets. Call 212 300 5196.
Constitution Article 35 and the CPP - the real domestic engine.
US talking points often wave the 1979 treaty like it is the whole file. Inside Colombia, Article 35 and criminal-procedure rules frame how courts evaluate requests, nationality timing, and garantias. Treat treaty diplomacy and domestic constitutional criminal procedure as one problem with two languages. Counsel who only speak embassy English miss the CPP fights that decide whether a package survives Corte Suprema review.
Corte Suprema first - Presidential decree second.
The Supreme Court of Justice examines whether the request meets legal standards. An adverse judicial path still leaves an executive surrender decision with the President. That two-step structure creates separate records - legal defects for the Court, assurances and humanitarian posture for the Presidency. We build both so you are not stuck with a clean court order and an empty executive submission.
Post-17 December 1997 nationals can be extradited.
Colombia's modern nationality posture turns on the constitutional date line. Conduct after 17 December 1997 can support extradition of Colombian nationals. Older conduct can raise different nationality and non-extradition arguments. Offense dating therefore is not clerical. Fix calendars, charging periods, and conspiratorial date ranges before anyone markets a citizenship defense that the Constitution no longer carries for your facts.
Garantías on LWOP and death define high-volume narcotics fights.
Colombian practice demands assurances protecting against the death penalty and often engages life-without-parole concerns as part of human-rights and specialty posture. Title 21 kingpin and sprawling conspiracy theories intensify those fights. We force US charging language into discrete, dual-criminal boxes that can actually support valid garantías - and that shrink what Florida or New York can pile on after surrender.
La Picota pressure tactics are not legal advice.
Custody settings tied to extraditables generate relentless voluntary-return pressure. Statements to DEA or Colombian authorities become the spine of US conspiracy cases. Todd Spodek and our team prepare federal trial defense - the same trial discipline people saw reflected in Netflix's Inventing Anna coverage of high-stakes advocacy - while Colombian remedies are still live. Loyalty runs to YOU, not to anyone trading your silence for a transport date.
