Woman found guilty and faces year in jail for laughing at Jeff Sessions

[G_j]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/jeff-sessions-woman-guilty-laughing-year-jail-sentence-code-pink-protester-a7716456.html

She laughed at the idea that Sessions treats all Americans equally

Clark Mindock New York

A woman who was charged with disorderly conduct for laughing during the confirmation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been found guilty and could face up to a year in prison.

Desiree Fairooz has been convicted for laughing early in Mr Sessions' confirmation hearing after Alabama Senator Richard Shelby said that the future attorney general's record of "treating all Americans equally under the law is clear and well documented." She has been convicted alongside two other protesters who had donned Ku Klux Klan costumes during the confirmation. Those two protesters could also face up to a year in prison.

The conviction comes after a two-day trial in the United States Superior Court in Washington. Ms Fairooz told the New York Times that she is "really disappointed" and that her lawyer are planning on filing post-trial motions to have the verdict cast aside. It is too early to discuss an appeal she says.

[Jno_Gilmor_]

1. I guess Sessions needs his "safe space"?

[MFM008]

2. Another snowflake

.......

[katmondoo]

3. I laughed too

Indict me!

[still_one]

4. Isn't this a first ammendment issue?

[gratuitous]

7. That will probably come up on appeal

Trial (note that I said trial) judges are skittish about ruling on the constitutionality of the law or statute allegedly violated during a criminal proceeding. Allegations against the constitutionality of the law or statute are put into the trial record to preserve the issue for an appellate court, should a conviction result from the trial. That's where the court will get into First Amendment issues, allegations of unconstitutionally vague wording of the law, and so forth.

But at this time, it's instructive to realize that we live in a country where laughing at a nominee during his confirmation hearing is punishable, but that same nominee lying under oath during that hearing is not.

[still_one]

8. Thanks for the insight, and you second paragraph is chilling

[Frustratedlady]

5. Might as well save yourself some effort and expense and come get me...

I've laughed at Sessions quite a number of times as I think of him as a little boy trying to get by with a lie by grinning from ear to ear with his eyes wide open in disbelief that someone would think he wasn't telling the truth. Goodness gracious.

And, no, Jeff. You do not look innocent.

[FakeNoose]

6. I guess she's guilty

... of being a liberal in Alabama.