As the title says, this is day 4 of what looks like being a rather long proceeding (now adjourned to May 18th). The magistrate will rule on whether Assange sho

As the title says, this is day 4 of what looks like being a rather long proceeding (now adjourned to May 18th). The magistrate will rule on whether Assange should be extradited. This is not about guilt at this stage, but whether the US govt has a reasonable case, whether Assange would get a fair trail, etc. One point (among many) is that (as I understood it until this trial started) one could not be extradited for 'political' reasons. The prosecution have argued that this is not true because although the US-UK extradition treaty says so, the UK law as passed by parliament does not. Much of the discussion, as you say, is rather technical legal arguments. I find the individual arguments themselves fairly clear, but the 'context' and normality of what is going on is harder for me to judge. My own opinion, for what it is worth, is that UK judges are not always honest in certain 'high profile' cases (e.g. the Jeremy Thorpe case) and that this case may turn out to be another such example.