Dmitry Sklyarov Gains High-Profile Defense Lawyer

Diesel Dave writes: "There's an article on Law.com about Dmitry Sklyarov's new Lawyer. Renowned San Francisco defense attorney John Keker has agreed to represent the Russian programmer pro bono. Keker is quoted as saying: "I think he is being unjustly accused and that's the kind of case I like to do." and "[The Government is] always welcome to dismiss the case, but we didn't come in to make a plea deal." This gives me the impression he has full intensions of fighting this to the end. Good."

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Bravo!

[pschmied]

This is really good news. I really hope that Dmitry Skylarov can go home to Russia soon.

On a side note, this case has gotten much more attention in international circles than it has in the US.

At my university I've met a woman from Ukraine who claims that for a while, atleast, there was daily coverage of the Skylarov predicament in the Ukrainian newspapers. Much like our terrorist coverage continues to dominate the news here in the land of the home, and the free of the brave.

For a moderately non-technical person, she seemed to have a very good grasp of the issues, albeit with a touch of (IMHO justified) "the US is doing this because they can" spin.

Well, I digress. Congrats, Dmitry. I hope you make it back to Russia before I visit there this winter.

-Peter