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by alex1138 197 days ago
You forget the security-state apparatus has secret courts and secret laws

It may not be a fair trial. He's always stated his willingness to undergo a fair one

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That's not how any of that works. Criminal trials are public record and there are no such things as secret laws.
Why are you assuming he'd get a public trial at all? In the current state of unchecked authoritarianism, he'd just as soon be disappeared to a "Homan Square".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homan_Square_facility