@szaba_the_hut; re your comment "... I think its important to...

@szaba_the_hut; re your comment "... I think its important to not prejudice a fair trial ...".

Exactly!

The trial needs to be fair to all of those impacted - not just one side.

Nor should the size and might of one party [eg. the government of the USA and its various agencies] be able to completely corrupt democratic processes, as was done in the case of the USA's unrelenting vindictive pursuit of Julian Assange.

The USA has so undermined the provision of a 'fair trial' that it's even crapped all over the US Constitution and what has for many decades been regarded as the role of the Fourth Estate in western democracies - trashing both as it sought to hide the war crimes and crimes against humanity for which the USA has become the worst offender since Hitler's Third Reich.