Professor @SetonHallLaw, Member @CFR_org, Affiliated Scholar @USALINYU, #PIPfellow @NCUSCR, Fellow @USJLP, parent to kids+dog (views personal, RTs≠endorsement)
Sep 10, 2021 • 25 tweets • 9 min read
Anming Hu's Judgment of Acquittal ON ALL COUNTS (following June's deadlocked jury) is short and sweet.
The court's accompanying Memorandum Opinion and Order is a stinging rebuke of the government's case and, more generally, a stain on @TheJusticeDept's #ChinaInitiative. A🧵
Four points before digging into the opinion.
First, DOJ never should have sought a retrial. It could have dropped the case after the mistrial (&, as it turns out, avoided a 52-page ruling detailing how it failed to meet even minimal legal requirements). foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/22/chi…
May 16, 2019 • 13 tweets • 7 min read
#MichaelKovrig & #MichaelSpavor have been formally arrested after 150+ days in detention (specifically #RSDL). A thread explaining a bit about what this means and why there are still so many things that we don't know (and likely will not know anytime soon). 1/
There is often confusion in English b/c, well, #Kovrig & #Spavor have been locked up for 5+ months, which looks like an "arrest." But "arrest" here is "逮捕" -- a specific procedure that goes through prosecutors (aka the procuratorate or procuracy). 2/ chinanews.com/gn/2019/05-16/…
