Sacoolas case: Will it help Assange?

[jim bell]

New Information:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-assange/extradition-hearing-for-wikileaks-assange-to-be-split-in-two-parts-idUSKBN1ZM1LN
Extradition hearing for WikiLeaks' Assange to be split in two parts



LONDON (Reuters) - The London hearing to decide whether WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange can be extradited to the United States to face charges including spying will be split in two, with the second half delayed until May, a judge ruled on Thursday.




On Wednesday, January 29, 2020, 12:28:15 AM PST, jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote: 


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7922781/America-REFUSES-hand-diplomats-wife-accused-killing-19-year-old-British-biker-Harry-Dun.html


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    * Motorcyclist Harry Dunn, 19, was killed in a head-on collision with a car in August
    * Anne Sacoolas is believed to have been driving on the wrong side of the road
    * She was charged with causing death by dangerous driving but fled the country
    * US Secretary of State Pompeo turned down extradition request for Mrs Sacoolas
By JOE MIDDLETON FOR MAILONLINE and SEBASTIAN MURPHY-BATES FOR MAILONLINE
   
Harry Dunn's furious family have slammed the 'indefensible' US decision to block the deportation of Anne Sacoolas in a 'dark day for the special relationship' and demanded a meeting with Boris Johnson.
America yesterday refused to hand over a diplomat's wife who is accused of killing a 19-year-old British biker in a crash near a US airbase.
Mr Dunn was killed in a head-on collision with a car on August 27 last year near RAF Croughton, in Northamptonshire.
Anne Sacoolas, 42, the wife of a US intelligence official, is believed to have been driving on the wrong side of the road and was charged with causing death by dangerous driving. But she claimed diplomatic immunity and flew to the US.

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Jim Bell's comments follow:

The one silver lining to this cloud of a case (biker hit by diplomat's wife in UK, who fled to America claiming diplomatic immunity) is that it might make the British judges think twice about approving the extradiiton of Julian Assange to America.  
After some looking, mostly using google to find ' "Julian Assange" "extraterritoriality" '  , I haven't found anything credible justifying the extradition of Julian Assange, for any reason.  If anything, quite the opposite.  I'd sure like to read any filings in a British court on this subject. Maybe the filings haven't been made, yet.  

               Jim Bell
 
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Assange seemingly abandoned by organization of journalists:     (and)
Assange spied on while in London Embassy.    
https://www.justice-integrity.org/news-reports/1731-december-2019-news

Extradition hearing will begin Feb 24, 2020 for a week, and will continue May 18, 2020 for three weeks.  
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"Julian Assange's Transfer Out of Solitary is Good, But it's Not Enough"




                          Jim Bell