Comment on Jury unanimously acquits Churchill statue spray-painter
Womble@piefed.world 2 days agoNo, they havent “cancelled” them. There is legislation going through which would restrict trial by jury for those offences, but it hasnt even reached the lords yet. That is likely to be where it is picked apart.
bedwyr@piefed.ca 1 day ago
They already did it for a year or less in prison in 2020 and that is passed no?
Womble@piefed.world 22 hours ago
The maximum a magistrate could sentence for a single either-way offense changed from 6 months to 12 months then, someone accused of an either way offense could still elect to have their case in front of a jury at crown court (with the possibility of >12 month sentence). I wouldn’t consider that a particularly significant change, and it didn’t attract a large amount of criticism from the legal profession like the current proposed change has.