San Francisco trial of Russian bloke extradited and accused of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, Formspring stalls again amid pandemic lockdown

The man accused of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox and the Formspring Q&A forum, and later selling the stolen data of hundreds of millions of users, has seen his trial disrupted a third time by the coronavirus pandemic. At a hearing on Tuesday, Judge William Alsup again delayed the US trial of alleged Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin …

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Nickel Silver

Don't Yanks always blather on grandiosely about the Right to a Speedy Trial being one of the hallmarks of their stirling legal system ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Nickel Silver

Yes, but it can be waived by the defendant. The article doesn't say what his lawyers said about this, probably they don't want to be going to court at this time either so I doubt they raised a fuss.

[SU]

Won't this just be immediate release?

Save for the mental health concerns, if the maximum penalty is ten years and he has been behind bars for 3 now, surely he is getting close to the average parole period for these charges?

[JayNetwork]

Parole, Early Release, and Time Served in the U.S.

"Parole" at the federal level in the United States may be limited.

There are, however, "early release", "supervised release", and "time served" provisions.