Police documents on alleged Julian Assange sex crimes leaked online
Somebody is trying to smear WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange.
Any doubt about that has been erased by reports from Sweden that police documents about his alleged sex crimes have been leaked online.
The international media are focusing on "key questions" that these documents raise—such as whether one of his Swedish lovers was asleep during intercourse or whether she consented to unprotected sex.
My key question is whether or not Assange can ever get a fair trial in Sweden. Somebody in a position of authority—and with access to these documents—has already decided to convict him online rather than in a court of law, where this evidence would be subject to admissability tests and to cross-examination.
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9 Comments
Dan DV
Feb 4, 2011 at 7:34pm
If that is grounds for dismissing the charges, we are all hooped.
You'd never be able to try anyone ever again. Defence teams would just leak documents and their clients would walk every time because they couldn't get a fair trial.
On the plus side, being a defence lawyer would be a lot easier.
RonS
Feb 4, 2011 at 10:45pm
Unless there is discovery, where both sides see what the other has as evidence for defence and prosecution then all documentation should remain undisclosed. Now that there is a leak you have to suspect there is some gain for those that leaked the documents. If there is then there is grounds for dismissal.
Bruno15
Feb 4, 2011 at 11:54pm
That's a serious allegation ... that a guy had sex with a woman while she was asleep? Really? A prosecutor is going to stand up in court and try to convince a jury that a man had sex with a woman and she could not have give consent because she was asleep? That prosecutor better hope his jury is composed solely of 12 year old mall chicks.
Halftaask
Feb 5, 2011 at 8:39am
Was this the police leak posted on WikiLeaks???? Think not, so maybe someone was just trying to pass on a message "Do on to others....."
monty (that's me)
Feb 5, 2011 at 8:50am
We need WIKILEAKS to sort out the nonsense being spread by spin doctors, flakes, shills, whatever, in the City of Vancouver, MetroVancouver, Delta and from all those puppet Liberals. Not to mention the wailing emanating from the feds, the Port and other sycophants over a pending strike. Our air will be cleaner, our highways safer, etc. once those trucks disappear. Great topic. Well done, Charlie. Cheers.
cheers.
A
Feb 5, 2011 at 9:22am
hmmm he leaks documents about others and jeopardizes their lives and it is freedom of press; someone leaks documents about him and it is a conspiracy. C'mon Charlie it is my right to know , isn't it?
e.a.f.
Feb 5, 2011 at 5:19pm
She slept through, while he was having sex with her? O.K. either he is a very lousy lay or she is a very sound sleeper.
This sounds more like a bad 70s movie.
Obviously some one in Sweden doesn't like A.
M Anderson
Feb 5, 2011 at 7:45pm
The docs have never been public knowledge and don't believe that his lawyer has actually had them. If the US + Sweden is behind this then it just may backfire on them. I think his defense att has been trying for sometime to get this info
Halftaask
Feb 6, 2011 at 9:26am
I think we all need to take 2 steps back and look at the concept. JA won't get a fair trail because info has been leaked? The lawyers wan't to pre screen the evidence the jury will see so they can mark some or all classified. (sort of like what JA thinks the governments shouldn't do) So the more money you can feed your lawyers the less likely you will be convicted. I've seen more than one news clip of sickened jurors saying they would have never found a criminal innocent if they had seen the evidence that was blocked. I guess that is why the system is aptly named the "Criminal Justice" not the "Victims Justice System"