Juan Matta-Ballesteros
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Juan Ramón Matta-Ballesteros is a Honduran citizen who, in 1988, was abducted from his Tegucigalpa home by United States Marshalls accompanied by Honduran Special Forces, taken to Illinois, and remanded into the custody of the DEA, after an earlier extradition attempt failed.
Matta-Ballesteros contested his arrest on the grounds of violation of habeas corpus; however, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected his case.
He was convicted of various offenses related to cocaine smuggling; as of 2006, he is serving a life sentence in California.
