In case you’ve been wondering what happened to the case of the Caltech physics student, William Cottrell, who was convicted of terrorism some time ago (I blogged about it here, after reading Judith Lewis’s LA Weekly piece), there have been some new developments.
The convictions have been overturned, due to nature of his Asperger’s condition not being taken into account (with regards intent, and hence what actions he likely was involved in as part of the group he was involved in) in the original trial. Steven Mikulan, on the LA Weekly blog (among other places) has more here.
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