Celebrated Spanish judge Garzon to head Assange legal team

he is an awesome man.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltasar_Garzon

Baltasar Garzón Real (Spanish pronunciation: ; born 26 October 1955) is a former Spanish jurist who served on Spain's central criminal court, the Audiencia Nacional. He was the examining magistrate of the Juzgado Central de Instrucción No. 5, which investigates the most important criminal cases in Spain, including terrorism, organised crime, and money laundering.
In 1993–94 he was elected a deputy and briefly held a ministerial role in the Felipe González's socialist government. Following his return to the Audiencia Nacional, he led a series of investigations that helped convict a government minister as the head of the Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación (GAL), a state terrorist group.
Garzón came to international attention on 10 October 1998 when he issued an international warrant for the arrest of former Chilean President, General Augusto Pinochet, for the alleged deaths and torture of Spanish citizens.
Garzón was accused of various irregularities by Manos Limpias and finally indicted on three different counts relating to a fraud trial, investigating Francoist crimes and taking bribes. He was suspended from judicial activity on 14 May 2010, pending trial. He was given permission to work as a consultant at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for 7 months from May 2010. On 9 February 2012 The Supreme Court of Spain convicted him of illegally wiretapping conversations between suspects on remand for massive fraud and their lawyers who were believed to be moving their money beyond the reach of the court. The trial judge described this act as appropriate to a dictatorship and sentenced him to eleven years disqualification from judicial activity.
A few days later, on 12 February, the fraud action was abandoned on a technicality and he was acquitted of exceeding his authority in investigating the crimes of the Francoist era on 27th February 2012
Garzón has stated that he will appeal to the Constitutional Court of Spain against his expulsion from the judiciary. He apparently had infuriated the Spanish far-right Falange and Manos Limpias.

Nice gray hair.

But it doesn't. Just never thought of Garzon. Had I, yeah, I might well have suspected this would happen.

I do hope for his safety, and long life after his work for Wikileaks.