Court is starting for the 21st say in the civil trial of the ‘Sines v. Kessler’ lawsuit filed against organizers of the Charlottesville neo-nazi rally. Judge Moon says the jury arrived at 8:30 AM and already began deliberating
Apparently on Friday jurors asked for a transcript of defendant Matt Parrott (co-leader of the neo-nazi Traditionalist Worker Party) - Moon says he will allow the jury to request particular portions of the transcript.
Court has adjourned until the hear from the jury - either with a note/question or if they’ve reached a verdict.
Jury has sent a note to the judge about negligence being among the charges, and if jury instructions about negligence apply only to financial liability. Judge Moon says it applies to everything
Jurors sent another note asking for clarification around parts of the jury instruction that talk about “violence” and “under federal law”
The jury Q is something along the lines of “are words a form of violence” - Judge Moon seems not sure how to answer, talks about how certain words/speech can be part of a conspiracy but that speech as part of a conspiracy isn’t protected by the First Amendment.
Judge Moon says he’ll reply to the jury note by referring them back to the original jury instructions, and if they still have a question to point out what specific part of the instructions they’re asking about.
Note from the jury - “if we cannot reach a unanimous verdict on the first 3 claims do we still each a verdict on 4,5 and 6?”
Judge Moon will tell the jury they must try to reach a unanimous verdict on all 6 counts.
Judge Moon sent the jury home, they will resume deliberations at 9 AM tomorrow.
Find our coverage of the civil trial of the white supremacist organizers of the deadly #UniteTheRight trial in #Charlottesville here: unicornriot.ninja/unite-the-righ…
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