The US Department of Justice is sending two legal experts to help prepare the extradition case against former Dominican military Mariano Dur?n. Dur?n is accused of firing the bullets that killed journalist Orlando Mart?nez on 17 March 1975. The case, regarded as untouchable for more than 20 years, is now being heard in Dominican courts. Several then high-ranking military are being tried or questioned. Linda Watts, charge d’ affairs of the US Embassy in the DR said, "We are interested in this case being carried out in a rapid, efficient and correct way." She said that the Dominican government has 60 days to present the documentation on the extradition of Mariano Dur?n, who is in jail by order of a US judge.
