The average American thinks an arrest is tantamount to guilt; one of many signs of this is that mugshots are made public here. Snowden should stay exiled.
Up to the jury. Jury nullification is a possibility. If I was on the jury I would vote to acquit (of course for that reason I wouldn't end up on the jury).
The government likely wants to charge Snowden with espionage, not just with mishandling classified information. There's a difference between guilty of some crime and guilty of the crimes the government wants to charge.
So was Rosa Parks. We have a whistleblower law, along with a gov't oath to defend the Constitution, that potentially trumps other laws. So his prison potential isn't so clear.
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