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Posted on 03/12/2020 8:33:03 PM PDT by bitt
Court ruling came on eve of court appearance scheduled in WikiLeaks case. The appearance has been called off.
ederal judge on Thursday ordered Chelsea Manning to be released from jail, concluding Manning's testimony in a WikiLeaks related case is no longer required.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Anthony J, Trenga in Alexandria, Va., came after Manning attempted suicide earlier this week.
"Ms. Manning’s appearance before the grand jury is no longer needed,” Trenga wrote. “Her detention no longer serves any coercive purpose."
The former U.S. Army intelligence analyst on Wednesday attempted suicide in jail as Manning waited to be compelled to testify before the grand jury.
Manning had been held in Virginia since May 2019 for refusing to testify in the inquiry.
Confused by my post or this article? Your statements are confusing to me.
How queer
Homofascists want supremacy not equality
I was speaking about all the other prisoners not the queers.
Where is the equality of justice for them?
HE didn’t try to commit suicide- HE tried to commit ‘attention seeking’ and it worked-
I thought Obama pardoned him?
It is the same when illegal immigrants are released without charge for DWI because prosecutors don’t want to deal with it
And I never hear of hate crime charges against those who target white people for assault or murder
Don’t try to figure that out. Just trust the Lord.
Coercive purpose? What about punishment for wrong-doing?
I am glad he is being freed. He still owes the huge fines the government has racked up daily in order to compel him to incriminate Julian Assange.
It should have been tried and sentenced for committing treason years ago.
It’s ridiculous that this Fed. Judge freed it just because it pulled the old failed attempt at suicide. Still guilty!
...and taxpayers paid for it...
a couple of reasons for that:
- Epstein was a red-hot topic. Manning had cooled off a bit, even though his crimes were arguably of greater significance to the country.
- Epstein had powerful personal connections that had turned into threatened enemies, because of his potential to blackmail them. Manning was enmeshed in the more anonymous process of the judiciary.
- Epstein's suicide (or "suicide") was successful, whereas Manning's was not. If you are going to use a suicidal/psychological despair plea to try and get released, you have to be careful to not succeed in your suicide.
Well; I wouldn’t want him/her/it dying on my watch; either!
bingo
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