Two Just Stop Oil supporters who sprayed Heathrow departure boards with orange paint during the Oil Kills, international uprising to end fossil fuels last July have won a temporary reprieve as their jury failed to reach a majority decision.
Two Just Stop Oil supporters who sprayed Heathrow departure boards with orange paint during the Oil Kills, international uprising to end fossil fuels last July have won a temporary reprieve as their jury failed to reach a majority decision.
Their goal isn’t publicity, that’s ancillary to their actual goal. Hmm what could their actual goal be… oh right: Just Stop Oil
I’m fairly certain that these JSO protesters are fully aware that they’ll probably face consequences. They might hope for jury nullification, but I doubt they’d expect it.
The judge can order the jury as they please, but the jury does not need to justify their decisions. This is exactly what jury nullification is.
The jury is the conscience of society, and their job is not only to decide whether the defendant did the acts charged, but whether they should be condemned and punished for it. The jury protects us from immoral or socially undesirable results.
As society has failed to properly act to avert disastrous outcomes, the threat continues to become more and more direct.
Won’t someone think of the lost profits, and museum glass that has to be cleaned. The wealth of billionaires is certainly more important than billions of people dying.