FedditPalestine Action Defendants Represent Themselves Due to ‘Court Decisions’
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Head told the jury: “Politicians want to get rid of juries altogether”, adding, “They are frightened that you will listen to us, the defendants, when we talk to you and afraid of the power you hold as a jury. It’s entirely possible you may be one of the last juries to get to make decisions in a case like this before even that right is taken away from ordinary people.”
She may be right.
Head said: “Sadly, despite how unbelievably kind and smart and wise my barristers are, after some decisions made by the court, I no longer feel like they are permitted to represent me in a way that does us all justice. So I’ve had to represent myself.”
Does anyone have any theories on what could be happening? They’re too afraid to face the consequences of stating the reason they have to forgo legal representation? Huh???
The court has decided not to tell the jury that the trial for the accusation of burglary will result in terrorism sentences if they are found guilty; the defendants have been told they are not allowed to state their motivation of preventing the production of weapons that were to be used in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and the press was gagged from reporting on it.
In other words, it was going to look to the jury like it was purely a burglary, but the defendants were going to be sentenced for a different, much more serious crime, and no-one was allowed to talk about it. This is because in the previous trials, most of the defendants were acquitted by the jury, because the defendants used the crime of conscience defence.