The only reason that he was even arrested in the first place was because of evidence found on a computer owned by

Yastremskiy was tortured into decrypting the data on his computer by Turkish authorities, so the information gathered from his computer should have been suppressed, he claimed.

But Palomino in a conversation with Wired is quoted as saying that Gonzalez has no ground for appeal because it was a negotiated plea agreement and that his former client knew what he was getting into when he accepted it.

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