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A 48-year-old man want­ed in the Unit­ed States for smug­gling over US$1 mil­lion in co­caine and hero­in in­to that coun­try is now set to be ex­tra­dit­ed af­ter suf­fer­ing yet an­oth­er le­gal de­feat.

De­liv­er­ing an oral judg­ment af­ter hear­ing lengthy sub­mis­sions at the Hall of Jus­tice, Tues­day morn­ing, Ap­pel­late Judges Mark Mo­hammed, Pe­ter Ra­jku­mar, and Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh re­ject­ed Shurlan "Chalkie" Gup­py's ap­peal over a judge's de­ci­sion to dis­miss his chal­lenge against his pro­posed ex­tra­di­tion to the US.

Jus­tice Mo­hammed, who de­liv­ered the pan­el's unan­i­mous judg­ment, said that High Court Judge Ricky Rahim could not be fault­ed for his han­dling of Gup­py's case.