PLEA BARGAIN TALKS EXPECTED TO DELAY EMERY EXTRADITION HEARING UNTIL
FEB. 6

SURREY - Extradition proceedings against Marc Emery, Vancouver's
self-styled Prince of Pot, were postponed Monday.

The B.C. Supreme Court put the hearing over until today. The
proceedings were expected to be further adjourned until Feb. 6 while a
plea bargain is negotiated.

U.S. federal prosecutors have charged Emery and two associates --
Michelle Rainey and Greg Williams -- with drug offences and money
laundering for operating a global marijuana-seed business.

All face minimum 10-year sentences and the possibility of life in
prison if convicted in the U.S.

However, under the proposed deal, Emery would plead guilty and
apparently serve a minimum of five years behind bars, mostly in Canada.

In return, he is demanding the charges against his friends be
dropped.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Greenberg in Seattle, where Emery was
indicted in 2005, has so far declined to comment.

He was unavailable Monday because of the public holiday -- Martin
Luther King Day -- in the U.S.