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Jet-lagged and a long way from home, US lawyer Barry Pollack found himself inside a packed courtroom for a three-hour hearing on a small island in the Western Pacific last Wednesday.

He'd just flown into Saipan on a private jet with Julian Assange following a frantic final few weeks of negotiations to secure the release of his client from Belmarsh Prison where he had spent over five years fighting extradition to the US.

For Pollack it was an extraordinary end to an ordeal stretching back over a decade.

"The surreal nature of it really sunk in when we were sitting at the airport in London getting onto a private plane to fly to Saipan."

"None of us, when we started this case, thought it was going to end in a courthouse in the Pacific," he told the ABC.

It had been a long journey to that courthouse in Saipan for Barry Pollack.

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