from EmptyWheel
Judge Anthony Trenga just ordered
Chelsea Manning released from jail, a day before her attempt to be
released based off a claim that coercion would never get her to testify.
Trenga declared that motion moot, though. The reason he released her is because the work of the grand jury has finished.
By Order dated March 12, 2020, after finding that theHer total fine amounts to $256,000.
business of Grand Jury 19-3 had concluded, the Court dismissed Grand
Jury 19-3.
Upon consideration of the Court’s May 16, 2019 Order, the Motion, and
the Court’s March 12, 2020 Order discharging Grand Jury 19-3, the Court
finds that Ms. Manning’s appearance before the Grand Jury is no longer
needed, in light of which her detention no longer serves any coercive
purpose. The Court further finds that enforcement of the accrued,
conditional fines would not be punitive but rather necessary to the
coercive purpose of the Court’s civil contempt order.
I have no idea, yet, what this means. But I’m glad she has been released.
Update: Jeremy Hammond has also been released back to federal prison.
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