Lawyers for accused Russian spy Maria Butina have introduced a motion to dismiss the charges against her, which they claim are “unconstitutional,” Talking Points Memo reports.
Butina, a 30-year-old Russian national, has been charged with failing to register as a foreign agent, “but if fantasizing about a future career in diplomacy and jabbering about personal events and peacebuilding aspirations with others like a friend and mentor who happens to be an officer from some foreign government agency (whether or not that officer is then acting in an official capacity) makes one a foreign agent, then scores of people are unknowingly violating this statute,” her attorneys, Robert N. Driscoll and Alfred D. Carry, wrote in a 28-page motion filed on Thursday.
The lawyers go on to list numerous examples of people “acting as a foreign agent,” claiming to have “endless factual examples of individuals engaging in completely legal conduct who are nonetheless at risk of prosecution.”
A spokesperson for the prosecution declined to comment to The Washington Post.
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