Camilla Broe’s legal avenues for fighting extradition to the US have expired with the appeal board’s refusal to send the case to the Supreme Court

A single mother charged with drug smuggling in the US will in all probability be the first Danish citizen ever to be extradited to a country outside the European Union for trial.

All legal avenues of resistance have run out for Camilla Broe, 42, after the Appeals Permission Board refused today to allow her case to be heard by the Supreme Court.

Broe is charged with smuggling 160,000 ecstasy pills into the US state of Florida in 1998, while she was a resident there. She is also charged with the selling of illegal substances and money laundering.

Broe’s appeal against being delivered to US authorities was first heard in the Lyngby lower court, which ruled that grounds for the extradition were insufficient. But that decision was overturned by the Eastern High Court in July.

The Dane attempted one last appeal to the Supreme Court, but the appeals board ruled that the conditions for allowing the nation’s highest court to hear the case were not fulfilled.

Michael Juul Eriksen, Broe’s attorney, said that the board’s ruling did not elaborate on the grounds for its decision.

‘But I’d certainly like to see them, because if this isn’t considered a precedent case then I don’t know what is,’ said Eriksen.

No fixed date has yet been given for the extradition. But as there are no longer any legal obstacles, it will likely happen as soon as Florida prosecutors say they are ready to move forward with the case.

Broe faces up to 63 years in prison if convicted. She has previously said she will plead innocent to the charges.