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Nasa hacker gains judicial review
Blog Self-confessed Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon has won a judicial review of Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's October decision to carry on with his extradition to the US, even after McKinnon's diagnosis with Asperger's syndrome.
[January 23, 2009, 12:29]
Nasa hacker loses second Home Office appeal
News McKinnon's recent diagnosis with Asperger's Syndrome, a condition on the autistic spectrum, had not changed home secretary Jacqui Smith's decision that the self-confessed Nasa hacker be extradited, said McKinnon's solicitor Karen Todner on Monday.
[October 14, 2008, 12:14]
Nasa hacker's lawyers prepare High Court appeal
News McKinnon's solicitor Karen Todner told ZDNet.co.uk on Tuesday that as McKinnon had recently been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, she was considering an application to the High Court to consider halting his extradition, should an application to...
[September 4, 2008, 10:02]
Parliamentary support builds for Nasa hacker
News Liberal Democrat peer Lord Carlile of Berriew, QC, the independent reviewer of Britain's anti-terror laws, told ZDNet UK on Wednesday that McKinnon's diagnosis with Asperger's syndrome, a condition on the autistic spectrum, meant he should be...
[February 25, 2009, 15:38]
Nasa hacker loses bid to avoid extradition
News McKinnon had tried to argue that former home secretary, Jacqui Smith, was wrong in law to push for the extradition despite his diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome, and that the director of public prosecutions was also wrong to opt for extradition...
[July 31, 2009, 15:20]
PM comment boosts McKinnon's UK-sentence hopes
News Gary McKinnon, are not routinely extradited, despite having Asperger's syndrome? McKinnon was diagnosed in September with Asperger's syndrome, a condition on the autistic spectrum. Prime minister Gordon Brown has spoken publicly for the first time...
[November 20, 2008, 13:03]
Nasa hacker wins right to appeal against extradition
News The Home Office had refused to halt the extradition proceedings, despite McKinnon having been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a condition on the autistic spectrum. Home secretary Jacqui Smith turned down McKinnon's second appeal against...
[January 23, 2009, 15:44]
MPs call for Nasa hacker to serve UK sentence
News McKinnon was recently diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a condition on the autistic spectrum. This House… urges the home secretary not to permit the extradition to the United States of Mr Gary McKinnon of Palmers Green, London, an Asperger's...
[November 3, 2008, 12:10]
Terry Waite speaks for Nasa hacker
Blog Anyone who has the slightest acquaintance with that problem (Asperger’s Syndrome) will know that while the sufferer can be, and indeed often is, brilliant in certain logical processes they can become irrationally obsessive in other directions.
[March 16, 2009, 15:20]
Nasa hacker fight heads to Europe
News The team also plans to appeal again to the home secretary on the grounds that it is inhumane, as McKinnon suffers from Asperger's syndrome, she told ZDNet UK. McKinnon has also been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a disorder on the autistic...
[October 9, 2009, 11:17]
Nasa hacker: I'm safe until prosecution decision
News The hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice on Tuesday was to consider another aspect of McKinnon's case — an application for a judicial review of home secretary Jacqui Smith's decision to continue with McKinnon's extradition, even after McKinnon...
[January 21, 2009, 11:03]
Mental illness not much of a defense in the US...
Talkback I wouldn't hold out much hope that the Asperger's syndrome diagnosis is going to hold much sway in the US given that according to Amnesty International one in ten of the USA's 1,000-plus executed prisoners in the last 30 years suffered from mental...
[September 4, 2008, 11:41]
Nasa hacker petition tops 4,000
Blog Over 4,000 people have now signed a petition that people with Asperger's Syndrome should not be extradited, directed at the Prime Minister's Office. McKinnon was diagnosed with Asperger's, a condition on the autism spectrum, last summer, and faces...
[June 15, 2009, 15:17]
Nasa hacker judicial review date set
News The review, set for the 9 and 10 June, will focus on whether McKinnon's diagnosis with Asperger's syndrome was taken into account during his appeals process. We're hoping the court will say that Gary's Asperger's will prevent his extradition, as to...
[February 27, 2009, 17:03]
Nasa hacker judgement day set
Blog McKinnon was diagnosed with having Asperger's Syndrome, a condition on the autism spectrum, last August. Smith was aware at the time of McKinnon's Asperger's diagnosis. The high court judges that are deciding the outcome of two concurrent judicial...
[July 24, 2009, 15:17]
Gibson: Is McKinnon still here?
Blog He was recently diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a condition on the autistic spectrum. I asked the ex-FBI agent whether he thought Gary McKinnon's Asperger's diagnosis should have any bearing on whether or not McKinnon should be extradited.
[October 30, 2008, 16:39]
Mental (S)ill(i)ness on both sides of the pond.
Talkback Asperger's Syndrome is hardly debilitating. My nephew has Asperger's. Asperger's is almost impossible to diagnose and has only in the last few years become a diagnosable condition even by mental health professionals.
[September 5, 2008, 9:37]
Nasa hacker to wait longer for prosecution decision
Blog McKinnon, who last August was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a condition on the autistic spectrum, faces up to seventy years in a "super max" maximum security jail if extradited to the US. While different arms of the UK government -- in this...
[February 16, 2009, 12:46]
Nasa hacker has 'shut down', say protesters
News Todner had previously made representations to the Home Office asking that McKinnon serve any sentence in the UK, given his recent diagnosis with Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. Should the home secretary reject McKinnon's plea, Todner said...
[September 3, 2008, 18:32]
