This is not about how good or bad he is; it's about how the wheels of justice are continually being perverted by both the USA and the UK legal system (Scottish and British) in order to secure his extradition.
A quick high-level list:
- Bugging his conversations with his lawyers (the people involved have been charged in Spain and a trial is ongoing there, and some American nationals added to the Interpol list).
- Preventing an expert witness from testifying in Spain about this bugging by arresting and convicting the expert on laughably bad evidence so that he can't travel to Spain.
- Holding the accused in continual isolation for years now in one of the most brutal prisons in the UK (hell hole doesn't even begin to describe it).
- Holding his hearings in a remote location so as to dissuade people from attending.
- Barring most of the people who do try to attend, including human rights observers (almost unheard of in non-dictatorships, and a first for non-violent offenders).
- Ensuring that the accused cannot hear the proceedings or talk effectively with his lawyers by locking him in a glass box (normally only used for extremely violent offenders).
- Preventing the accused access to his lawyers outside of the courtroom (this alone is enough to declare a mistrial).
- Allowing the USA to change the indictment and submit different evidence months into the proceedings after it became clear they couldn't win, and then giving the defence a single day to prepare (hundreds, possibly thousands of pages).
- Allowing the USA team to flout court proceedings, and then preventing the defence from doing what they are allowed by law to do, preventing expert defence witnesses saying it will take too long, cutting cross examinations short, denying admission of evidence after weak, sometimes bizarre USA objections, etc.
Although the last judge was terrible in many ways, she did block the extradition on the grounds of suicide risk (personally, I think she just didn't have the stomach to be the one to sign him over). What they need now is a sympathetic judge to overrule this one point and disallow any arguments to the other points. That's what this latest chapter is about.