
Prosecutors failed to consider the human rights argument against forcing an autistic British man accused of hacking into U.S. military computers to stand trial in the United States, a defense lawyer said Tuesday. Attorney Edward Fitzgerald told the High Court that extraditing Gary McKinnon carried “an avoidable and unnecessary risk of serious psychological suffering.” U.S. prosecutors accuse McKinnon, 43, of breaking into 97 computers belonging to NASA, the U.S. Department of Defense, and several branches of the military soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.