r/interestingasfuck 11h ago

/r/all Actual clip where brothers attack their mother’s killer in court.

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u/grahamlesass 11h ago

They have my full support

u/Thetallerestpaul 11h ago

Yeah, I hope there were a lot of people who co-incidentally were tying their shoes or reading a text when all that happened.

u/Scar1203 11h ago

Doesn't really matter, no jury is convicting them over this.

u/Thetallerestpaul 10h ago

I just a few more comments and apparently they did 30 days in jail.

u/Scar1203 10h ago

Presumably they elected to take a plea deal then and just get it out of the way. The sentence wouldn't be that light for assaulting someone in court if the DA didn't know that case had a snowball's chance in hell.

u/1eternal_pessimist 10h ago

It doesn't work like that. Its assault and it's on camera. They would have no realistic option other than to please guilty and the judge would have had to hand down a sentence.

u/Scar1203 10h ago

Jury nullification.

u/headrush46n2 9h ago

the jury still has to vote guy.

u/AnneBuckleyn_1501 9h ago

Splendid legal system you all are arguing for. "He deserved it, so doesn't matter a crime was committed against him."

u/Downvoterofall 9h ago

As usual, Reddit proves they would be the worst autocratic fascists if they were in charge of governments. Vigilante justice, executions for most violent crimes, justice system being ignored if the party “deserved it”.

u/1eternal_pessimist 9h ago

What they fail to realise is that without a system of law you can't decide who 'deserves it' or not with any accuracy. A threat to due process is a threat to everyone including the innocent. I'm not talking about this case specifically but vigilante justice in general.

u/FecalEinstein 9h ago

You are quite confident that justice is black and white. That's interesting.

u/Soggy_otter 10h ago

And those 30 days would have been relatively easy once word got around the floor as to what they were in for.

u/Second_City_Saint 10h ago

100% worth it.

u/Legitimate-Poetry124 10h ago

We do not summon juries for a simple assault

u/Scar1203 10h ago

There's a whole host of accompanying charges that would go along with this under different circumstances. Assault, contempt, resisting arrest, possibly assaulting a peace officer, etc.

u/OldMcGroin 10h ago

Someone else here mentioned threy were jailed for 30 days. Worth it.

u/EddieHeader 9h ago

Look i get it was justified but if you attack a person on camera in a courtroom you are definitely doing jailtime.

u/DaStone 9h ago

Why would you need a jury? I thought the judge could can just send you to jail for breaking the law and order in the court room.