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Re:Trial of programmer accused in CIA leak ends in hung jury by true_religion on Monday March 09, 2020 @08:56PM (#22531660)
If you think you are being framed, but have no evidence then your best court defense is to talk about what you can prove. Judges do not look kindly on desperate gambits.

Once you are free, it’s much easier to gather evidence.

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Re:Trial of programmer accused in CIA leak ends in hung jury by meowface on Monday March 09, 2020 @09:28PM (#22531869)
He did attempt to orchestrate an extremely elaborate and desperate gambit to try to claim he was framed. (See citations 2 - 4.) And indeed, it appears it was not looked upon kindly.

I don't agree in general, though. If someone framed you but you couldn't prove the actual framing, you would still insist that you were framed and explain how you couldn't have done it. If that happened to me, I would be livid and professing my innocence and making it very clear to whoever I could that someone somehow planted the evidence. Maybe his lawyers advised him not to talk, but they didn't really present much of an argument for framing/planting at trial, either, it seems.

>Once you are free, it’s much easier to gather evidence.

What if you're convicted and sentenced to many decades, or life, as he likely will be either for a retrial on the leak stuff, or for his child pornography trial?

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