sentences:  This section deals primarily with modern theoretical arguments regarding Texas' "de jure" status under certain interpretations of international law, a focal point of modern assertions regarding alternate viewpoints on Texas' established legal status as a state of the United States of America.These arguments are illustrated in legal actions brought by proponents of these viewpoints.In January 2004, Timothy Paul Kootenay, in jail in Aspen, Colorado, claimed that the state of Colorado had no jurisdiction to extradite him to California on a probation warrant, on the grounds that he was a citizen of the Republic of Texas.