High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Valentine v. United States, 299 U.S. 5 (1936), is known in the study of international criminal law for its contribution to the concept that while it is permissible for the United States to receive an accused without a treaty-based extradition, the United States itself will not extradite without authority found in statute or treaty. In this case the respondents, native-born citizens of the United States, were charged with the commission of crimes in France.