Post #4087131
2026-07-25 11:40 UTC
They request access to phone calls while in prison, and are denied.
They ask for handcuffs to be removed while in transit in police vehicles (and their ankles remain cuffed), for some of them up to three hours from their respective prisons to the court, and are denied.
They ask for an independent stenographer and a courtroom sketch artist, and are denied.
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@BenRiceM@mastodon.social 2026-07-25 11:40
It’s hard to capture the disposition of the judge but “dismissive, belittling, and demonstrating a complete disregard for any semblance of a fair trial” start to come close. The kind of person who would laugh at the hardship she has just caused, then roll her eyes and complain that she doesn’t get what all the fuss is about. Repeatedly.
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@ellenor2000@mastodon.top 2026-07-25 14:21
@BenRiceM@mastodon.social That sounds an awful lot like the sort of procedure one would have in a kangaroo court that's trying to pretend to be a court in a functioning democracy. #lang_en