
| Msg # 12504 of 12811 on ZZUK4448, Monday 8-17-25, 6:32 |
| From: JEFF GAINES |
| To: HAYTER |
| Subj: Re: Ricky Jones... |
From: jgnewsid@outlook.com On 17/08/2025 in message <3383783621.8196e2ea@uninhabited.net> Roger Hayter wrote: >>The verdict in Mr Jones' case may have the effect of making the >>government think again whether the law will actually be enforceable in >>future, or whether his case was a one-off jury nullification that can be >>ignored as an anomaly > >It is not necessarily jury nullification. The jury may have regarded Mr >Jones' >imprecation as hyperbole without substance; much like "Decapitate TERFs" >signs >at transgender activists' demonstration, not usually prosecuted as most >rational people would suspect that neither the holder of the sign or >his(sic) >audience seriously intended it to be acted upon. We will never know, >unfortunately. Is an intention that the words be acted on an important part of the prosecution? I am sure I remember it from previous discussion on Lucy Connolly, this case (or was it a similar one) and Bob Vylan's chant. -- Jeff Gaines Dorset UK Those are my principles and if you dont like them, well, I have others. (Groucho Marx) --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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