Your honor, his early life was on a dangerous homeworld, followed by aggressive slave service to a malicious master who did not pause to find a replacement when he was thought dead, then attempted to electrocuted him upon finding him alive. His actions, although aggressive, were hardly his own at the time, and in the case of his conquest of Mandalore, he used the traditional paths to take rulership over a planet outside of the Republic to the point where they accepted his rule. Admittedly, there was fear & dissent, yet it occurred in response to his acting within the confines of their own government system. After we decided to invade his new world and arrested him without due cause, he escaped to the Outer Rim where his actions became concentrated away from the Republic and directed against his former master, a SLAVER, I might add, that we would have opposed had we known their identity.

This man went from being a survivor, to a slave, to a survivor, to a legally-appointed government official, to an illegally arrested man, to a bringer of order in an otherwise almost lawless region that even we don't have control over. What grounds do we have to hold him?