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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by reaperducer on Monday October 19, 2020 @02:28PM (#24829320)
A press release for indictments for people you're never going to arrest or have a trial for is nothing more than propaganda.

They can have the trial without arrests. It happens all the time.

If convicted, then they are sanctioned, or face some other externally-viable penalty. Often through restricting their ability to travel to allied countries and use the banking systems outside their home country.

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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by monocasa on Monday October 19, 2020 @02:31PM (#24829356)
Trial in absentia is very illegal in the united states. Our adversarial system requires their chosen council to be present to function correctly and the supreme court as affirmed this fact.
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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by reaperducer on Monday October 19, 2020 @02:38PM (#24829428)
No one stated that they wouldn't have representation. The OP posited that the people responsible would never be arrested
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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by monocasa on Monday October 19, 2020 @02:42PM (#24829477)
How are they going to have representation when they're in Russia and not communicating with the US justice system?

Even a public defender being present requires you to affirmatively agree to them being your lawyer, or else you defend yourself at trial.

There's no way to have a trial in the US without them being present.

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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by reaperducer on Monday October 19, 2020 @04:16PM (#24830470)
How are they going to have representation when they're in Russia and not communicating with the US justice system?

The same way it was done all those times when American people sued the Iranian government in American courts. This is not new ground. This has been going on for at least half a century.

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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by monocasa on Monday October 19, 2020 @04:22PM (#24830541)
The civil system used for lawsuits is very different than the criminal system used for these indictments. The civil system allows summary judgments for not showing up, but the criminal system does not.
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