The British state has lost the argument(jonathancook.substack.com) |
The British state has lost the argument(jonathancook.substack.com) |
This is an extraordinary new legal strategy by which the sentencing for ordinary criminal charges may be radically increased if the judge, and the judge alone, decides there is a terrorist link post verdict. The jury has no say on whether there is a terrorist connection or not, and the judges hide from the jury the possibility of this happening at all.
But the public are not stupid and do not live under a rock. The jury sent a note in the second Filton case to the judge Patrick Field asking him whether there would be sentencing under “terrorist connection”. Field replied to the jury that this was “not your concern”.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/08/of-judges-ju...
As I understand it, lawyers seek to ensure that anybody with any domain knowledge is excluded. The jury is intended to be informed solely by what the lawyers present.
I know even less about UK law than I do about American law, so I could easily be wrong here. But from what I have heard, "not your concern" is exactly the design of the system. That system failed in this case, and I imagine they'll be trying to figure out how (and prevent that in the future).
- the punishment is a small fine
- the punishment is the amputation of both hands
does your verdict depend on the expected punishment?
Palestine Action was a legal organisation.
Nearly a year later, the government of Keir Starmer declared it a
terrorist group – the first time in British history that a non-violent
direct action organisation has been proscribed.
-- https://substack.com/home/post/p-184498793AFAIK, they rammed their van through a front shutter, without knowing who might be on the other side; and as police tried to arrest them, one of them hit a female police officer in the back/spine with a sledgehammer.
Doesn't sound non-violent to me..
I suppose we'll be linking to The Duran next.
>If Putin is a war criminal, then Madeleine Albright was no less of one https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2022-03-25/putin-war-criminal-...