@bcrtonarrcws expressed interest in a trial thread
"Didn’t I just do this?” Bucky said, staring down at the stack of paperwork in her hands. “I could swear I just did this.”
‘This’ being stand trial for the Winter Soldier’s crimes. It had been an utter circus, and the only reason Bucky had pled not guilty was because she’d wanted the truth to get out in the open, and for that she needed the opportunity to present evidence -- something she couldn’t do without actually standing trial. Much to her shock, and mingled relief and shame, she’d been acquitted. The evidence of seventy years’ worth of torture, brainwashing, and mental manipulation had convinced the jury that she wasn’t culpable for what she’d done.
The Russian government, however, disagreed, and yesterday they had announced that they were seeking Bucky’s extradition so that she could stand trial again, this time for crimes against Russian citizens.
This had, understandably, made Bucky a little upset.
People could call her a hypocrite for it, but the fact remained that the U.S. government had had decent grounds to charge her with crimes. But Russia? When they had been the ones who had forced her to commit those crimes in the first place? That was bullshit, and she had no intention of standing for it. She knew what this was really about. They didn’t actually want justice. They wanted to punish her for revealing Soviet secrets.
She scrubbed a hand over her face, sighed, and then looked at Claire. “This is a mess,” she said.
