When Contreras asked if avoiding a bad situation was automatically evidence that someone was a risk of flight from criminal charges, the prosecutor replied: "Past is prologue." "He knew that he was in a bad situation." "He keeps not coming back when he has the opportunity to come back," Bratt responded. "There was no legal requirement that he return to the U.S.to flee you have to flee from something." Let's see if the whole thing blows over,' is that the same as actively fleeing?" the judge asked. "If intention was, 'I know I'm in some sort of trouble. His plans may not have been completely formulated," said Contreras. Hitselberger "had just gotten kicked out of the country where he was living. However, Contreras signaled early in the hearing that he wasn't sure that Hitselberger's actions amounted to the kind of evasion one would undertake when trying to avoid justice. ![]() Hitselberger was arrested in October after he traveled to Kuwait, was denied entry to the country and deported to the U.S. and spent several months traveling in Europe. Prosecutor Jay Bratt argued that Hitselberger was a flight risk because, after being confronted over removing the documents and then being dismissed from his post in Bahrain, he interrupted a trip back to the U.S. Prosecutors have said they have no evidence Hitselberger was involved in espionage. Prosecutions for taking classified documents away from work without permission are rare and usually occur when espionage is suspected or when the suspect is high-ranking. Hitselberger's case is the seventh brought during the Obama Administration involving charges under the Espionage Act for leaking, or mishandling classified documents without evident signs of espionage. Hitselberger, don't let me down," Contreras told the defendant, a balding, mustachioed, middle-aged man clad in an orange jumpsuit during a half-hour-long hearing Wednesday in federal court in Washington. Hitselberger's case has attracted some attention because at least some of the classified documents he obtained in recent years ended up in a collection of documents he donated to Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He'll also be required to wear a GPS monitoring device, the judge said. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras instructed that the translator, James Hitselberger, be placed in home detention at his aunt's residence in Arlington, Va. ![]() Judge orders release of linguist for NavyĪ federal judge has ordered the release from jail of a Navy contract linguist facing two felony counts for allegedly taking four classified documents to his personal quarters at a U.S.
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