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...this should be done because it would avoid putting McKinnon through the ordeal of execution. But the Director of Public prosecutions refused a UK prosecution on practical grounds - that it would be too expensive. Karen Todner, McKinnon's... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/10/09/238066/court-throws-out-hacker-mckinnons-appeal-to-supreme.htm
...stopped his extradition on humanitarian grounds. The court was asked to consider whether the UK Director of Public Prosecutions should have tried McKinnon in the UK, so making the extradition process redundant. Both claims, Lord Justice... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/07/31/237130/mckinnon-case-thrown-out-by-high-court.htm
...the same reason, Johnson told the committee, he agreed with the decision of the High Court, the Director of Public Prosecutions and US Department of Justice, on the matter of whether McKinnon could be tried in the UK. Their preference... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/11/11/238605/ufo-hacker-gary-mckinnon-suicidal-over-health.htm
...describes a stark reality: that New Labour ignored the warnings of the Information Commissioner and the Director of Public Prosecutions, and rubbished the findings of Privacy International and the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust (JRRT), to push... http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/the-data-trust-blog/2009/09/surveillance-state-kerplunk.html
...of justice require it," said Romero. McKinnon's extradition is proceeding despite the UK's Director of Public Prosecutions stating that the only evidence the US had supplied to back its request being based on "hearsay" and not likely... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/08/28/237486/us-civil-liberties-union-tells-uk-to-defend-mckinnon.htm
...extradition until the 2003 Act came into force. McKinnon is appealing against the decision of the director of public prosecutions (DPP) not to try him in the UK. The DPP said earlier the UK lacked the evidence to bring a prosecution against... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/07/16/236933/mckinnon-closer-to-extradition-as-tories-lose-commons.htm
...trumped up, a court heard today. Edward Fitzgerald QC, McKinnon's barrister, argued that the Director of Public Prosecutions decided wrongly in February not to prosecute the hacker in the UK and so allow his extradition to face charges... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/07/14/236894/us-allegations-against-ufo-hacker-gary-mckinnon-were-over.htm
...reserved judgement. The court said it will set a date to hear a further judicial review of the director of public prosecutions' decision in February not to prosecute McKinnon in the UK. McKinnon has gathered support from celebrities... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/06/10/236379/government-powerless-to-stop-mckinnon-extradition.htm
...a UK prosecution in the hope that it would prevent his extradition. But the court judged that the Director of Public prosecutions should be left to decide whether to prosecute McKinnon. The DPP had decided that a UK prosecution was not possible... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/07/31/237141/mckinnon-faces-extradition-despite-suicide-risk.htm
... pic from rex features Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon has launched a legal challenge against the director of public prosecutions (DPP), claiming that he should be prosecuted in the UK for his crime of breaking into military computer systems... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/06/08/236334/pentagon-hacker-mckinnon-launches-legal-challenge.htm

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...was legally wrong to push for the extradition despite his diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome and that the director of public prosecutions was also wrong to opt for extradition despite having sufficient evidence to prosecute McKinnon in the U.K. ... http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10300671-83.html

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