Because the government has to pay her legal fees perhaps.
Comment on Greta Thunberg: Case thrown because of 'no evidence'
jettrscga@lemmy.world 4 months agoHow would this make them think twice? There weren’t any consequences for them for unlawful arrest and they still got to inconvenience protesters.
jtb@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Emperor@feddit.uk 4 months ago
It was going to be the high level conviction that would make the news and be a shot across the bows of anyone else who protested and it failed, miserably. The CPS and everyone else involved are going to have to consider each new case now because the chances of conviction don’t look good.
Most protestors these days are prepared for inconvenience (some go out of their way to courter arrest in order to make a bigger splash), it’s a whole different ballgame if you could be looking at a criminal conviction for not doing much at all.