Judge In Planned Parenthood Trial Orders Guilty Verdict Against Journalist
Why have a jury when the judge will make the decisions for the jury ahead of time? And, if these videos were made at hotels, restaurants, etc as the defendant states, then how is this trespassing? If this is the standard - then law enforcement and journalism in general will have a new set of standards to meets as they do undercover work all the time. Having real information out there - especially for the taxpayers, who not only have their money stolen from them in the first place, but to know it is being used is important. I agree with the defense in this case that this judge seems biased.
"Why are you chanting at me?!? Screw due process, maaan... I one of you!"
See? The system works.
The judge should have done the right thing and threw it out or let the jury decide. If the jury decided the same, or let the defendant off, the judge could blame it on the jury and still claim he's "one of them".
The primary value is the exposure of crime. The secondary value is the privacy of the criminal.
In this case, the ranking of the values is upside-down.
It's almost as weird as in that bizarro parallel universe, where Spock doesn't have a goatee, and Kira doesn't wear a leather catsuit.
During my 21 years as a state corrections, three times as many prison inmates tried to sue me and three times a federal court judge tossed the phony complaint.
What kind of cases against me were they? The last one was an inmate who kicked me in the butt while I was struggling with another inmate (who took a baton from another officer another inmate was beating up) and then sued me for writing him up and keeping him from going to work release.
The only time I was ever called to court was as a witness. As a back gate tower officer of the day, I wrote an incident report about how an officer had to physically remove an inmate from my sally port by laying his hands on him to force him fully back inside the prison. The inmate falsely claimed he had been beaten up.
Me dino was never even called to the witness stand yet thoroughly enjoyed myself. What a great change of pace and I was making as much money as I would working with inmates in that stinking prison.
Reminds me of the time when at the prison a captain apologized for making me wait on my butt in a chair for over an hour in his nice air conditioned office. I said, "That's okay. I'm still being paid."
"“I have already determined that these defendants trespassed at each of these locations. Because I determined that these defendants trespassed, the law assumes that Planned Parenthood has been harmed and is entitled to an award of nominal damages such as one dollar for each trespass,” he told the jury as the trial comes to a conclusion.
The judge said he had also determined that Daleiden and his colleagues trespassed at the Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountain Center in Colorado and a Planned Parenthood Center in Texas."
The judge can't do that. That is not his function. Whether you agree with abortion or not, selling baby parts is illegal, very illegal. Yet, the demonrats and pre-trump presidents have supported it and funded PP, in exchange for big money donations. Your tax dollars at work, and they get the joy of knowing you gave to the demonrats. PP should have been banned the day after it was started, simply because it is all fakery. The abortion thing is just another tool of the deep state to funnel money, just like every war has been.
Depending on the charges and what side of the political spectrum it effects, all you need to do is shop for the right judge. I believe that any judges ruling that gets overturned in a higher court, the defendants should have their legal expenses reimbursed.
Yeah, look for this one to be overturned on appeal. This order by the judge on how the jury must rule is ridiculous - as is the based complaint.
@Lucky: I like the English system but it has the major advantage of allowing private prosecution. In most cases in the US, no prosecutor wants to pursue the person who obtained the evidence. This case is a rare exception.
So again, does that mean that the mainstream Journalists that do undercover stories (by using false stories to gain access) or police doing undercover investigations should then also be able to be prosecuted for trespass and then in the ones caught in turn be awarded a fortune for simply having their own words exposed? Based on that approach - no one will ever be able to catch smart criminal operations so long as they stay behind closed doors to do their dirty work.
And the vast majority of cases I've seen involving this type of infiltration are of industries such as meat farming, which the vast majority of us consider perfectly legitimate. Yes, some gross looking scenes occur during butchering -- the industry does not deserve to be smeared by having some activist publish video of them. And in my opinion that description fits abortion, too.
- In US law, evidence obtained illegally cannot be presented. (All states?)
- In English law such evidence can be presented but charges against the illegality are brought.
(LIE) that leaked Damning Emails about the DNC Podestaphile and the Evil hag’s horrid corrupt criminal behaviors. In this case the”Whitleblower” is damned not the bullshit that the Demonrats do.
This case seems to be the same , a pet liberal cause PP breaks the LAW in a very unethical fashion. Selling human aborted parts to the highest bidders. This practice gives an incentive to do very late term abortions and often the fetus becomes a baby as I takes its first breath before being killed and swiftly dismembered for profit.
Then the parts are often delivered illegally by Fed express. The “Whistleblowers” here unveiling the criminal actions are charged with trespassing. What a f..ing joke.
Yet today the Schitt show of an impeachment inquiry .They are protecting a gossiper passing on 2 Nd and third hand hearsay of no crime no bribery no nothing. If I said Adam Shitface killied a young man at the Standard Hotel in Los Angelos and owes a debt to have his actions covered up and his payment plan is to get rid of Trump at all costs.Who ever repeats this it becomes a fact and no one can cross examine, is a credible charge according to Shifty Bug 👀 Schitt.
In the end, the jury should be able to see through the charade, and find the defendant guilty as charged. Privacy means nothing if it isn’t applied equally to all data, criminal, unsavory, personal, proprietary, irrelevant.
The Chinese don’t believe in IP, and just steal our technology. This is no different. This guy is guilty. I hope it was worth it to him. He should pay a massive penalty and probably go to jail. The ends do not justify the means.
Additionally - I think they are conflating the charges and the penalty. If he is guilty of trespass, tell me what damages the trespass caused? Trespass in and of itself causes no damage. Now, releasing the information, tearing up property, taking things, etc would be separate charges - but he is not charged with a separate charge only trespass. In this case they couldn't go after him for slander because their own words condemned them. Simple trespass does not justify a multi-hundred thousand dollar award. Maybe a couple hundred dollar fine.