ST. LOUIS _ A federal judge has approved a request to extradite a St. Louis County man to Bosnia to face a war crime charge.
The government of Bosnia and Herzegovina says that Adem Kostjerevac raped a pregnant Serbian prisoner in 1992. He was indicted there in 2015, court documents here say, and a prosecutor sought an order to arrest him in April 2017.
Kostjerevac's lawyer, Kayla Williams, pointed out in an email Monday that, "this decision is only a probable cause finding and not a finding of guilt." In a hearing here last year, she challenged a witness identification of Kostjerevac and argued in court filings that he'd been charged too long after the crime.
