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Another stupid jury reaches a verdict
And naturally the "evil" criminal in this case was a woman.
To be fair to them they weren't alone. Another dumbass brought the case before them so they could demonstrate their stupidity. I just hope the woman doesn't get a year in prison over this nonsense.
quote: So, when Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) claimed at Sessions’ most recent confirmation hearing that Sessions’ record of “treating all Americans equally under the law is clear and well-documented,” Desiree A. Fairooz, a spectator who says she attended the hearing in silent protest, let out a chuckle.
For this chuckle, she was arrested, dragged out of the hearing by Capitol police, and eventually convicted of disorderly conduct and “parading or demonstrating on Capitol grounds.” She could receive up to a year in prison.
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Re: Another stupid jury reaches a verdict
She wasn't found guilty for the laugh but for the disruption she cause when they asked her to leave. She won't even get a day in jail. A small fine I would think.
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quote: Noserose wrote:
She wasn't found guilty for the laugh but for the disruption she cause when they asked her to leave. She won't even get a day in jail. A small fine I would think.
True - but the press articles don't say that she did anything other than laugh (and they don't even suggest it was ongoing laughter). For that she was "asked" to leave which led to her arrest.
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Re: Another stupid jury reaches a verdict
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/code-pink-sessions-laughter-trial.html?_r=0
No one has any more right to be at an event like this than anyone else.
It is illegal to make anyone leave.
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It seems under these circumstances, a sneeze, cough or fart would have been a disruption. Reading the article it was not only the woman that was arrested and convicted but two KKK clansmen in their outfits that were male.
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Funny how not giving Ann Coulter a chance to speak at a university is infringement of free speech but this isn't.
If people are too disrupting, they should be made to leave. Charges against them should only be brought if they do something like throw a bottle at a congressperson.
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Especially considering this is the govt. suppressing free speech.
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i just want to point out that i thought
Jeff Sessions was smirking throughout his confirmation hearing.
but, maybe that's how his face looks when he's lying.
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quote: Noserose wrote:
She wasn't found guilty for the laugh but for the disruption she cause when they asked her to leave. She won't even get a day in jail. A small fine I would think.
So why was there a need for a trial? And keep in mind that the jury wouldn't have known what kind of a sentence she would receive.
The way I look at it is that they caused the disruption, not her. Anybody would have been annoyed by being confronted by cops or security personnel over an inadvertent laugh. I'm glad I didn't have to worry about this sort of thing happening when I was a student in high school.
The fact that a dumb jury would convict some woman of a crime over something as insignificant as this is just further evidence that the jury system needs to be tossed out.
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