Rudy Giuliani held liable for defaming Georgia election workers, judge rules
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This is separate from Rudy's criminal trial with Trump, this was a civil trial between him and the election workers, where Rudy admitted that he lied about them.
Life sure sucks for this sack of shit these days. I’m all in favor of his bullshit burying him for the rest of his life. Could have led a fat and pampered lifestyle and threw it all away. Fuck him.
The only thing about this whole scenario I dislike is how much time elapsed between "fuck around" and "find out". But it's good to see justice catching up with that shitbag.
Unfortunately, no matter what ends up happening, it still will never fully make right what those poor election workers went through and are still going through.
Unfortunately you are right. That said, if we get enough punitive damages to deter a second guiliani, we have done a whole lot already. Let it never happen again.
Criminals aren't deterred by consequences, because they never expect them. Criminals commit crimes when they think they can get away with it, and unfortunately many of them do.
I am enjoying watching Giuliani suffer, but that doesn't mean it's justice, or that the system is working. No amount of money can atone for his crimes, and no prison sentence will change our legal system into something closer to fair.
That time is literally just justice occurring. In general, you should be wary of a very fast trial
Too bad Lou Reed didn’t live to see it
Damn I just looked that up. It's not vaguely prophetic. It's more spot on than the Simpsons predictions.
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I don't know where to look, how is he related to Giuliani?
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I love how the author describes the ruling, "unsparing." Heh.
And that's just page 1.
This is called the "full Alex Jones"
Not to brag, but I called this https://lemmy.world/comment/2467076
It's going to be interesting to see how "for purposes of this litigation only — does not contest the factual allegations" is going to fly in the criminal case.
I don't think the court system allows you to admit you lied in one case and then go "No, no, that's only for that ONE case... this criminal case is TOTALLY different..."
It kinda does though. Standards of proof are different between civil and criminal trials. Your "right to remain silent" is only relevant for criminal proceedings. This is why you will never be required to take the stand in your own criminal trial. This gives you coverage for shady law enforcement inferring criminal guilt based on your silence or reluctance to answer questions.
Contrast that with civil proceedings where you do not have the right to remain silent. In those if you refuse to answer a question, the judge/jury/finder of facts can legally infer a negative response. So if asked "Did you do the thing?" and you remain silent, they can assume you did the thing. In a criminal trial, they can't assume you did the thing.
This brings us back to the standards of proof. For criminal it's "beyond all reasonable doubt". For civil it's "a preponderance of the evidence". Consider these to be effectively 100% and 50% respectively. Now why this makes sense in this case is he effectively admitted that there's a better chance someone would think he's lying than telling the truth. He's admitting to the 50%, but not admitting it's provable beyond all reasonable doubt at 100%.
Just to quibble, reasonable doubt is not 100% certainty.
The money his lawyers already got. ;)
I wonder how he feels about going all in on trump now. Was it worth it?
He's literally lost everything and, at 79 years old, he will likely die before this is all settled for good.
I'd say they should take all his money, but... what money?