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| At the time of writing, it is certain that: | At the time of writing, it is certain that: |
| * The US will appeal the first instance decision of Jan. 4th; | |
| * The US Accusation submitted their "grounds for appeal" (they will likely question Assange's mental health diagnosis and challenge parts of the decision declaring the US prison system too harsh for him to be sent there); | The Prosecution (USA) |
| * The Defense team filed in their "respondent's notice", in response to the grounds of the US accusation; | |
| * The Defense team should file in their "cross-appeal notice" (deadline postponed to April 6th), requesting that the appeal ALSO concern the rest of the decision, thus attempting to cancel parts of the decision denying the journalistic and political nature of WikiLeaks and Assange's work. | * (A) The US will appeal the first instance decision of Jan. 4th; |
| | * (B) The US Accusation submitted their "grounds for appeal". They will likely question Assange's mental health diagnosis and challenge parts of the decision declaring the US prison system too harsh for him to be sent there); |
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| | The Defence (Assange) |
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| | * (C) The Defence team filed in their "respondent's notice", in response to the grounds of the US accusation (B); |
| | * (D) The Defence team should file in their "cross-appeal notice" (deadline postponed to April 6th), most likely requesting that the appeal ALSO concern the rest of the decision, thus attempting to cancel parts of the decision denying the journalistic and political nature of WikiLeaks and Assange's work. |
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| Next steps will be: | Next steps will be: |
| * the US accusation submitting their "respondent's notice" to the "cross-appeal notice" (sic) filed in by the defense; | * (E) the US accusation submitting their "respondent's notice" to the "cross-appeal notice" (sic) filed in by the defence (D); |
| * a decision by one judge in the Court of Appeal to allow this appeal; | * (F) A Court of Appeal judge will decide whether or not to allow this appeal (E); |
| * appeal hearing (that could be in the same hearing as the decision to allow the appeal) and decision; | * (G) Subject to authorisation, the appeal hearing (regarding E) will take place - possibly at the same hearing where the authorisation decision (F) itself will be given. |
| | * (H) The decision; |
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| Depending on the result of the appeal, there may or may not be an appeal-of-the-appeal before the supreme court. | Depending on the result of the appeal (H), there may or may not be an appeal-of-the-appeal (I...?) before the Supreme Court. |
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| ==== Will Assange's situation change now that Biden is the president of the US? ==== | ==== Will Assange's situation change now that Biden is the president of the US? ==== |