WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court docket on Saturday cleared the best way for the extradition to Japan of an American father and son accused of serving to former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn flee that nation whereas awaiting trial on monetary misconduct fees.

In a short order, Supreme Court docket Justice Stephen Breyer denied an emergency request by legal professionals for U.S. Military Particular Forces veteran Michael Taylor and his son, Peter Taylor, to placed on maintain a decrease courtroom order that cleared the best way for them to be extradited.

The Taylors’ legal professionals in a late Thursday submitting reiterated arguments that their shoppers couldn’t be prosecuted in Japan for serving to somebody “bail soar” and that, if extradited, they confronted the prospect of relentless interrogations and torture.

Attorneys for the Taylors and the Justice Division didn’t instantly touch upon Saturday. The Japanese Embassy in Washington didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

A federal appeals courtroom in Boston had declined on Thursday to subject an order stopping the Taylors’ extradition whereas they appealed lower-court rulings. The U.S. State Division permitted their extradition in October.

“The very least the U.S. courts owe the petitioners is a full likelihood to litigate these points, together with exercising their appellate rights, earlier than they’re consigned to the destiny that awaits them by the hands of the Japanese authorities,” protection legal professionals wrote.

The Taylors had been arrested in Might at Japan’s request after being charged with serving to Ghosn flee Japan on Dec. 29, 2019, hidden in a field and on a non-public jet earlier than reaching his childhood residence, Lebanon, which has no extradition treaty with Japan.

Ghosn was awaiting trial on fees that he had engaged in monetary wrongdoing, together with by understating his compensation in Nissan’s monetary statements. Ghosn denies wrongdoing.

Prosecutors stated the elder Taylor, a 60-year-old non-public safety specialist, and Peter Taylor, 27, acquired $1.3 million for his or her companies.