Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

NASA Hacker Wins Right to Extradition Hearing

Posted by samzenpus on from the just-send-him-over dept.

E5Rebel writes "Gary McKinnon, the UK-based ex-systems administrator accused of conducting the biggest military hack of all time, has won the right to have his case against extradition to the U.S. heard by the House of Lords."

1 of 217 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Plea bargain by the_womble · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hmmm... that's a strange thing to criticize... this is a pretty standard practice in US criminal law - cooperate, forfeit your right to a trial, and you get off easy.

    Except that the rest of the world regards it as a loathsome practice designed to get someone in jail for something, even when there is a lack of conclusive evidence against them. It is getting criminal convictions through coercion rather than evidence.