So it wasn’t an assassination attempt after all.
Cannon is a compromised judge. Everything she does in an official capacity is draped in subjectivity.
She’s a piece of shit and I’d shit in her mouth if I could.
this is stupid. I will agree the government has a right to keep things classified but they should be required to drop all charges to do so. Keeping the secrets should mean letting the accused go free.
It depends on what secrets are being kept. Here, I would guess that the accused is asking for information relating to secret service deployments, surveillance, and other information on how he was discovered. That information would be useful to future assassins, but doesn’t serve to mitigate his actions or exonerate him.
Just because the accused asks a question with a classified answer does not mean the accused should go free.
I mean that does seem relevant to his case if it specifically on what they were doing in realtion to him. I think the idea future assassins would be able to use it to make assasinations easier to be a bit much. They likely could get things like that from books of retired people.
These hearings were specifically for determining whether the information the defendant is requesting is exculpatory, or if the requests are specious.and irrelevant. If the judge had ruled the opposite way, the government would have to decide whether to declassify the information, or drop some or all of the charges.
It is very likely that if they chose to declassify and publish the information, they would be able to prosecute many additional charges. They have to balance the value of charging every crime committed against the cost of revealing operational information.
Thanks. Although I don’t have massive faith in the judiciary currently.
Agreed. Unfortunately, it’s all we have.
This particular decision is appealable, if this guy is eventually convicted. And the appeals will be years in the future.
What are the odds that he’ll be allowed to appeal without going to jail?
He’s already in jail, so zero.
But in this case, I’m for it.
I will agree the government has a right to keep things classified
Can you explain why you think this? I’m not trying to argue or anything, just interested in others reasoning. For context: I am contemplating the contradictions of a government “of, for and by the people”, is funded by the people, and that is allowed to withhold information from those same people.
Say there are analysts/agents preventing cyber-warfare by other countries. Their personal information and methods need to be kept secret to continue being effective when charging foreigners that commit espionage or damaging attacks against domestic targets.
Maybe right is to strong a term as that word should only be used for humans. More that its reasonable that some things need to be classified. Military capability comes to mind as a lot of money can be saved by it not being known how extensive capabilities are.
Well, he could have been requesting files on area 51 for all the article says.
this is a good point. I guess I was assuming for things related to his case.
Well in the end the judge decides if it is related to the case. And the article also said they can withhold info that relates to the case if it doesn’t help the defendant. And again the judge decides. So if the judge was objective this would work. But that particular judges has shown not to be. Yet just because she isn’t completely objective, doesn’t mean he didn’t ask for stuff that wouldn’t help him. In short, I don’t think they should have to spill everything requested, but I don’t really trust them to be a fair judge of what should be released.
What are they hiding?
Beside Trump raping children? Probably a lot.
They paid the shooter, and staged the whole thing
/s… Kinda
Judge Cannon, you say?
A.K.A Trump’s personal “judge”
You’re right, probably Justice Cannon by 2028
Cannon judges, you say?
…holy fuck, what does it take for people to say, “just becaue you’re rich doesn’t mean you’re immune”…fuck, fuck fuck
The accused… decided to represent himself, that’s uh, certainly a decision of all time
Probably decided when they paid him to lie there
Well the Epstein truther wing of MAGA is just going to eat this up and I’m here for it
Something, something, “How did they know I was there??!??!”
