Andrew Huang[*] [This article is available in PDF at this link] I. Introduction In May 2013, at a remote firing range deep in central Texas, there was silence. Then, a sharp crack reverberated across the prairieland as engineers led by then-25-year-old Cody Wilson successfully test-fired the world’s first entirely 3D-printed gun for the very first […]
First Amendment Sentence Mitigation: Beyond a Public Accountability Defense for Whistleblowers
Mailyn Fidler[*] [Full text of this Article in PDF is available at this link] Introduction In October 2018, the federal district court in Minnesota sentenced former Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) agent Terry James Albury to four years in prison under the Espionage Act for disclosing internal FBI documents to the press.[1] Albury pleaded guilty […]