Lee Free - Judge Apologizes For Government's Conduct

2000-09-14 Thread David Lesher
JUDGE PARKER Dr. Lee, you have pled guilty to a serious crime. It's a felony offense. For that you deserved to be punished. In my opinion, you have been punished harshly, both by the severe conditions of pretrial confinement and by the fact that you have lost valuable rights as a citizen. Under

Lee Free - Judge Apologizes For Government's Conduct

2000-09-13 Thread Eric Cordian
http://www.newsday.com/ap/national/ap254.htm ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- After nine months in solitary confinement, Wen Ho Lee pleaded guilty Wednesday to a single count of mishandling nuclear secrets and was set free by an apologetic judge who said the government's actions ''embarrassed our