On Sunday, 22 August 2021, 06:52:16 pm AEST, jim bell <[email protected]>
wrote:
"It is just possible (though unlikely) that assange might be correctly
extradited under UK law then a US court might decide not to continue on
US law extraterritoriality grounds.
There is also the issue of "dual criminality", the idea that if an extradition
is to occur, a given act must be considered a crime by both the sending nation
and the receiving nation.
One more issue is that if there is indeed 'dual criminality', then logically
some kind of prosecution is appropriate for UK, but we haven't seen that, or
even heard about it ..."
I think the UK is officially happy to let this crime be prosecuted in the USA
with only the proviso of ' cruel and unusual punishment ' holding things up
till recently.
"... Also, remember that I described an argument based on the limitation period
("statute of limitations"), pointing out that if there is indeed
extraterritorial jurisdiction, then Assange should have been considered 'within
US jurisdiction' from 2009 through 2015, and so the likely 5-year limitations
period should have expired 5-6 years ago. I certainly believe a valid argument
against extradition is that there is no limitation period valid excluding the
time the American government attempted to begin extradition. One of the
reasons that I forwarded a copy of my arguments to Jennifer Robinson, Assange's
barrister, is to ensure that she was at least exposed to the arguments. ..."
Well she must be an expert in that field of law by now so the fact she hasn't
raised this might tell us something. There is also added evidence re some CIA
leaks which Camp Assange is acting suspiciously furtive about.
Logically any legal technicality that could have been invoked surely would have
by now given multi-millionaire Assmange's high-powered legal team. You don't
have to be a lawyer - jailhouse or otherwise - to see which way the winds
blowing here.
Btw - the number of non-American Normies exceeded loopy gringo Americans online
in 2005.
