Florida reluctant to extradite eastern New Orleans double murder suspect
Dwayne K. Martin, accused of murdering his girlfriend and her 8-year-old daughter in their eastern New Orleans home, will not be extradited to Louisiana anytime soon because he faces a potential life sentence in Florida, a prosecutor there says.
Santa Rosa County sheriff's deputies and U.S. marshals arrested Martin on March 5 when he allegedly armed himself with a hammer and tried to burglarize a home and steal a four-wheel all-terrain vehicle from a family in Milton, a small town of about 7,600 people 24 miles northeast of Pensacola.
New Orleans police were eager to bring Martin, 25, back to answer two charges of second-degree murder and one of attempted second-degree murder in the March 3 shooting deaths of 25-year-old Walesha Williams and her 8-year-old daughter, Paris Williams, and the wounding of a 39-year-old woman. The killings occurred inside a home at 14535 Duane Road.
Police and prosecutors in different jurisdictions often cooperate to move suspects first to the court adjudicating the most serious charges.
"He's facing a double murder over here, and over there he's facing a burglary," said Detective Sgt. Nicholas Gernon, commander of NOPD's homicide section. "Sometimes, that jurisdiction will say, 'Just take him, and we'll drop the charges and transfer him to NOPD's custody.' That happens a lot, if someone is facing a really serious crime somewhere else.
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2015/03/florida_reluctant_to_extradite_eastern_new_orleans_double_murder_suspect.html
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Apparently a home invasion is a much more serious crime than a double murder charge. 
