Month: June 2024

Listening to Randy Credico’s show Julian #assange, Countdown to Freedom. I’m going to be putting together a post with links to information from the SaiPan hearing after this is over.
[https://wbai.org/listen-live/]

Since I was behind on everything that went on over the two days while I was trying to catch up on the trial of Karen Read, who incidentally it looks like may have a hung jury and retrial. I’ve put together some links from the SaiPan hearing that happen late Monday into early Tuesday, because as one Youtube attorney says “time is a construct.” He’s right, and I’m definitely not Familiar with SaiPan’s time zone! This is not a definitive list, if anyone has more, you can reach out to me on Mastodon at: @ladyhope@theres.life or my X account, which I’ve started using more after this @antipentrap OK here it goes, most of these do come from centralized places, unfortunately! First, the plea agreement: which is right here. OK, I honestly thought I was going to have to rescue my very old PACER account, in my very old legal name, to get this document, but thanks to Stefania Maurizi for posting it! OK OK, I just did a name change last year, and the plea document was giving me a bit of an issue until just now. Kevin Gosztola has covered Julian Assange, and his very long-running case from the beginning. He’s been able to get press access to most of the hearings, accept this last one, of course. He was live streaming during it, though, and provided updates as it was happening. link to Kevin’s stream. There was another stream going on around the same time, done by Kristin Hrafnsson, editor of Wikileaks, and others. This one is really long, but he spends quite a bit of time going over the hearing and what happened in court. link to the freedom flight stream Here’s an X posts from Kevin Gosztola, with quotes from the hearing. link to Kevin’s X post.Gosztola just did a stream today that gave us audio from this hearing which Kristin Hrafnsson, did mention on the 5 hour long stream. “I got to listen to the audio of him interacting with the judge in SaiPan.” Well, here it is, what I’ve been looking for for two and a half days finally revealed itself! link to audio clips from the hearing. \
This article from the Guardian, who I have a love-hate-kind of like little bit right now relationship with, puts it altogether, and quotes Hrafnsson, extensively. link to the guardian article.
I have just finished digesting the plea, and when I’m not so over the entire universe about this whole thing, like maybe sometime next week, I might come back and explain how this hearing worked. We don’t normally do plea and sentencing hearings all in one, and this plea agreement contained provisions for well if crap went wrong! I’ve never actually seen that in any state plea filing I’ve ever read before. We also don’t normally waive the PSI, (pre-sentencing investigation report,) unless both parties ask for it. Yeah it’s something I’ve seen, but both sides have to agree. We did here.
OK OK there was more stuff than that, a lot more, hah! Instead of taking all night to get to it, I’ll just put the links in here lol! The first one is an X thread from a local SaiPan reporter who was in the hearing. [Link to the X thread.
This is from KUAM news on SaiPan right after the hearing, it includes clips of Barry Pollack, Julian’s lawyer, speaking. Yes, unfortunately it’s on Facebook, I can tell you how to get around that, but it requires an userscript manager. Link to clips from the press conference.
One more from KUAM news, a longer video with a longer statement from Pollack. more lclips from the press conference.

Linking to the #Assange freedom flight stream, hosted by WIkileak’s editor. [www.youtube.com/live/zwut…](https://www.youtube.com/live/zwutQ2orqAs)

The world failed to reach me for the past two days. Yes, I caught up at 12:00 pacific this morning. I now have officially found out that Julian Assange is free! I got up to get water, and go to the bathroom. I was going to to put something on from my Youtube subscriptions to go back to sleep. I have this userscript installed, so Youtube only shows me my subscriptions. [https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/475942-youtube-recommendations-be-gone-cleaner-youtube]
In my subscriptions, it said, “Julian Assange finally free.” I couldn’t believe it, and had to go look it up! It’s true, Assange pled guilty to one single count, and the judge in the US district for the Mariana islands, yes this is where they held the hearing this time, determined that an appropriate sentence was time served.
Obviously I’m happy he’s free! However, after 14 years, I wasn’t there to follow the final hearing. the world could not get to me the past two days. I was busy catching up on a case that I’m royally behind on, because it started in the middle of Daybell. I have a local case that I’ll be following in August, so I need to finish this one before that one starts. I also would like to follow the Baldwin thing coming up next month, but that’s completely optional. So yes I’m definitely celebratingg, but I also have a bit of guilt for not seeing things through!!
[https://consortiumnews.com/2024/06/24/julian-assange-is-free/]

Yesterday was June 12th, the thirtieth anniversary of Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman’s murder. I was 11, when that happened in 1994. Before this, I did not follow many news events if any. I was too busy being a kid.
This case, is what actually changed my interest. I started following trials at 11. After Simpson, I took a long break, only to return to following cases in my adult life.
In 2022, I decided to go back, and revisit the Simpson case. Only because I had not seen a good portion of it. This is because I was in school, and doing things after school. I did so, and what I thought at the time was that everyone presented their cases to the best of their abilities. I found the case to be a complete mess! It isn’t the nicest thing to have to say in this moment. We want to look back and have a happy ending, but the Simpson case doesn’t.
Next year will be the thirtieth anniversary of the trial. There are a whole lot of people who don’t understand it, don’t know about it, haven’t heard of it etc. I’m not sure if I’m going to fix that. However, I’d like to play a small part. Right now, my plan is to blog through the entire trial archive. Not on this domain, a different one. It’s going to be interesting, because there are a lot of things I only saw back in 2022, and then some things I did in fact see both times, and remember doing so. I haven’t logistically worked all this out on how it’s going to look as of yet, but this is my plan so far.
May Ron and Nicole forever rest in Piece!