The situation is horrendous, and panders to the non-USAian's belief that the USA legal system is horribly broken beyond repair, and that justice is frequently seen not to be done.<p>However, this, while newsworthy, doesn't seem to have any particular relevance to HN. It's not about hacking, or CS, or entrepreneurship, or startups. It's not even something that's "deeply interesting."<p>I'm willing to listen to anyone who can argue a case for this belonging here on HN, but it seems to fall foul of <a href="http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a> where it says:<p><pre><code> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or
sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting
new phenomenon. ... If they'd cover it on TV news,
it's probably off-topic.</code></pre>