Re: Breaking news: Assange agrees to plead guilty in exchange for release, ending standoff with U.S.

 
From: "Terry Lodge tjlodge50@PROTECTED [Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition]" <peacelist@PROTECTED>
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Date: June 24th 2024
  It is amazingly easy to cop to a set of facts which a prosecutor and court will agree fulfills the elements of a criminal offense. They'll come up with something.

   He's pleading to a crime with a maximum 10 year sentence and it's possible he'll be sentenced to time served in that torturous prison in London, or at least, spend a short sentence somewhere else.

  This avoids creating some bad precedents, not the least of which is the current Sup Ct being asked to pronounce whether practicing journalism is a crime under the Espionage Act. We may be about to find out in a few days that Presidents have the rights of kings and cannot be prosecuted, it would be a relief to not create another legal disaster for them to approve.

   This deal is grimy and slightly deflating but the US loses big, Assange lives to fight (or retire and recuperate), and the United States doesn't get to create a legal dragnet that imperils every journalist on the planet irrespective of their location.

    This is a victory. Not a ticker tape one, but a victory nonetheless.

On Monday, June 24, 2024 at 08:18:26 PM EDT, Eric Resnick <resnickeric@PROTECTED> wrote:


I understand the move from a practical perspective, but how does one plead guilty to that which is not a crime?

Does this set a bad precedent?
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BREAKING NEWS

Julian Assange agreed to plead guilty to revealing national secrets in exchange for release from a U.K. prison, ending his standoff with the U.S.

Monday, June 24, 2024 7:25 PM ET

Barring last-minute snags, the deal would bring to an end a prolonged battle that began after the WikiLeaks founder became alternately celebrated and reviled for revealing state secrets in the 2010s.

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