You're asking the wrong person. Ask the judge and jury, Sherlock.
They jury couldn't explain it either, Skippy.
Six grand juries turned the case down until Ronnie Earle tricked one into an indictment.
This conviction will eventually be overturned, and the only thing that will have been accomplished is the knee-capping of an effective Republican.
You Lefties don't like effective Republicans.
You're asking the wrong person. Ask the judge and jury, Sherlock.
I used to believe that the Latvian Forest Brothers (meža brāļi) were valiant freedom fighters, but now you've explained succinctly that the rightful government, the Russians ("their judge and jury") were correct when they called them scum, bandits and illegals.
The meža brāļi apparently were rightfully exterminated...
Were the juries given accurate instructions with regards to the statutes that existed at the time of the alleged offense? If they were not, their conviction means nothing except that the judge who gave illegitimate instructions belongs in jail.