Jury Says Not Guilty But Politicians Say Otherwise
Politicians and pundits attacking the Filton 24 acquittals are actively undermining the right to a fair trial while 18 related cases are still live. Right, so a jury has just acquitted six Palestine Action activists in a UK courtroom, but the verdict itself isn’t the real story. What matters is what happened next. Politicians, pundits, and media figures didn’t just criticise the outcome, they rewrote it. They asserted guilt after acquittal, treated allegations as facts after the fact, and openly questioned whether juries should even be trusted when they don’t deliver the “right” result, as…
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