A tactic used by the defense in a spy trial, involving the threat to expose government secrets unless charges against the defendant are dropped.
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To call this graymail or blackmail is to demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding of criminal jurisprudence.
Graymail is a defense gambit not available to most criminal suspects.
The risk of graymail can arise in various circumstances.
Instead, the court's decision, though formally upholding the review requests of the United States and NATO, provides a roadmap for defendants to pursue graymail strategies in the future.
But I suspect there's a very good reason behind not going to trial and seeking a death penalty, and that's the phenomenon of ‘graymail.’
Definition of graymail in US English:
graymail
nounˈɡrāmāl
A tactic used by the defense in a spy trial, involving the threat to expose government secrets unless charges against the defendant are dropped.
Example sentencesExamples
Graymail is a defense gambit not available to most criminal suspects.
To call this graymail or blackmail is to demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding of criminal jurisprudence.
But I suspect there's a very good reason behind not going to trial and seeking a death penalty, and that's the phenomenon of ‘graymail.’
The risk of graymail can arise in various circumstances.
Instead, the court's decision, though formally upholding the review requests of the United States and NATO, provides a roadmap for defendants to pursue graymail strategies in the future.