The Court of Appeal on Wednesday reserved its decision in the extradition case of 59-year-old Jamaican Louis Timoll.

Timoll is wanted in the United States to be sentenced for conspiracy to import marijuana. Timoll, a fisherman and community leader of Old Harbour Bay, St. Catherine, pleaded guilty in the U.S. in 1986 to drug charges. He was on bail and, the day he was to be sentenced in 1986, he fled to Jamaica.

Timoll is asking the Court of Appeal to set aside his extradition order because, since he returned to Jamaica, he was not hiding and had been living an open life.

He is asking the court to rule that it would be oppressive and unfair to extradite him after he had been living in Jamaica for so many years.

Deputy Solicitor General Patrick Foster argued that Timoll should be extradited because he is a fugitive.

Timoll is being represented by attorneys-at-law Earl Witter and Barrington Frankson.