How about a "suspended sentence" in the U.S.?
Posted on 05/01/2019 4:49:05 AM PDT by sockmonkey
LONDON — A British court sentenced Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, to 50 weeks in jail on Wednesday for jumping bail when he took refuge in Ecuador’s Embassy in London seven years ago.
His complex legal travails are far from over: The United States is seeking Mr. Assange’s extradition for prosecution there, and officials in Sweden have left open the possibility that he could face criminal charges in that country, as well.
Mr. Assange faces a charge of conspiracy to hack into a Pentagon computer network; a federal indictment accuses him of helping an Army private to illegally download classified information in 2010, much of it about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which WikiLeaks then made public. He has denied the charge.
Mr. Assange, 47, was arrested on April 11 after the Ecuadorean government withdrew its protection of him and allowed the police to take him out of the embassy in London, where he had lived since 2012. The same day, he appeared in court and was convicted on the charge of skipping bail.
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50 weeks.
More interesting timing.
How about a "suspended sentence" in the U.S.?
The global deep state is desperate to kill off Assange and his knowledge. No doubt he will be suicided, or perhaps a fellow inmate will murder him.
Probably the latter, but AFAIK, he still has been denied medical care. He is a Dead Man Walking.
The global deep state is desperate to kill off Assange and his knowledge. No doubt he will be suicided, or perhaps a fellow inmate will murder him.
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Deep State actors would no doubt like to kill Assange, but Assange has stated he has dead-man switches to specifically protect against that kill him, and very inconvenient facts will be released (like perhaps who killed Seth Rich).
*** How about a suspended sentence in the US? ***
US wants him dead.
I thought FNS reported 15 weeks. If it’s 50 hummmmm.
*** I thought FNS reported 15 weeks. If it’s 50 hummmmm. ***
I was following it live. It’s 50.
WOW! For bail jumping? Julian is deep pucky.
“...US wants him dead...”
The DNC and Hillary want him dead.
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Van which brought Assange to Assange to Crown Court just left.
Protestors shouting “Mainstream media are LIARS. They are PROSTITUTES”. They are shouting this at the mainstream media. And now they are shouting “we can’t wait until it’s your turn, mainstream media”.
Must feel good to be “wanted”.
The UK, Sweden, and the current prez of Ecuador have now shown themselves to be shamefull puppets of the US.
Yeah, looks pretty definitely to be 50:
Excellent!
The US or the hillarycrats?
He knows Seth Rich provided the e mails, not the Russians
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Pardon:
“The power to grant pardons and reprieves is a royal prerogative of mercy of the monarch of the United Kingdom. It was traditionally in the absolute power of the monarch to pardon and release an individual who had been convicted of a crime from that conviction and its intended penalty. Pardons were granted to many in the eighteenth century on condition that the convicted felons accept transportation overseas, such as to Australia. The first General Pardon in England was issued in celebration of the coronation of Edward III in 1327. In 2006, all British soldiers executed for cowardice during World War I were pardoned, resolving a long-running controversy about the justice of their executions.[12]
Today, however, the monarch may only grant a pardon on the advice of the Home Secretary or the First Minister of Scotland (or the Defense Secretary in military justice cases), and the policy of the Home Office and Scottish Executive is only to grant pardons to those who are “morally” innocent of the offense (as opposed to those who may have been wrongly convicted by misapplication of the law). Pardons are generally no longer issued prior to conviction, but only after conviction. A pardon is no longer considered to remove the conviction itself, but only removes the penalty which was imposed. Use of the prerogative is now rare, particularly since the establishment of the Criminal Cases Review Commission and Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, which provide a statutory remedy for miscarriages of justice.
According to the Act of Settlement, a pardon cannot prevent a person from being impeached by Parliament, but may rescind the penalty following conviction. In England and Wales, nobody may be pardoned for an offense under section 11 of the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 (unlawfully transporting prisoners out of England and Wales).[13]”
WikiLeaks @wikileaks 24m24 minutes ago
Julian Assange’s sentence, for seeking and receiving asylum, is twice as much as the sentencing guidelines. The so-called speedboat killer, convicted of manslaughter, was only sentenced to six months for failing to appear in court.
*** The DNC and Hillary want him dead. ***
The US political parties, with a few exceptions are the same team. They just wear different jerseys.
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