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Juries put the moral intuition of ordinary people into the heart of the criminal justice system.
Over the last few years juries have repeatedly acquitted those taking nonviolent direct action to advance climate and racial justice. These verdicts are deeply embarrassing to the government and the arms and oil industries. Industry lobbyists such as Lord Walney have promoted extraordinary measures to put a stop to them.
People have been banned from using the words ‘climate change’ in court and jailed just for defying that prohibition. Normally available legal defences have been removed. People have been arrested and prosecuted for displaying the legal principle that juries can acquit as a matter of conscience. Following sham trials, in which the verdict is essentially rigged, people are now being jailed in increasing numbers for years for peaceful acts of conscience. In the midst of the prisons crisis.
People have been banned from using the words ‘climate change’ in court and jailed just for defying that prohibition. Normally available legal defences have been removed. People have been arrested and prosecuted for displaying the legal principle that juries can acquit as a matter of conscience. Following sham trials, in which the verdict is essentially rigged, people are now being jailed in increasing numbers for years for peaceful acts of conscience. In the midst of the prisons crisis.
