Mr McKinnon faces extradition to the US for breaking into American military networks between February 2001 and March 2002. He trespassed on networks owned by Nasa, the US Army, Navy, Air Force, and Department of Defense. If tried and convicted in a US court, Mr McKinnon could face decades of jail time, and millions of dollars in fines.Despite taking his appeal to the House of Lords, Mr McKinnon lost a six-year legal battle to avoid extradition. The European Court of Human Rights also declined to back Mr McKinnon's case against extradition.
Mr McKinnon is currently awaiting a decision by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith as to when the extradition process will begin. In the interim, 20 UK MPs have signed an Early Day Motion which calls for any sentence imposed by a US court to be served in a British jail.
News source: BBC News
either way, 'decades of jail time' sounds extreme considering what he did aint THAT BAD... cause it aint like he hacked into there systems and leaked top secret info to other governments or anything along those lines.
personally if he thinks he is going to get screwed bigtime in court i would probably make a run for it cause you would have little to nothing to lose.... but i guess that's sorta out of the question now since he's most likely in jail already.
me personally... i think the US Gov just wants to make a example of him for making them look bad.
That's a bad example (as the person in question is a UK citizen/so far been in UK courts) for the point you were trying to make, see laws related to Squatting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting#United_Kingdom
I think that he doesn't deserve the treatment he has received, and it is as ThaCrip said, "US Gov just wants to make a example of him".
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