The case of Jacob Dix, who has been charged with “utilizing fireplace to intimidate” through the torch march on the College of Virginia (UVA) campus in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 11, 2017, the night time earlier than the Unite the Proper rally, has resulted in a mistrial after the jury was unable to come back to a unanimous verdict. This was essentially the most vital setback but for the George Soros-backed Albemarle County Commonwealth Legal professional Jim Hingeley and his antifa assistant Lawton Tufts, males who determined to pursue prices towards peaceable protesters six years after the very fact for political causes.
No proof was offered that Dix assaulted anybody or used his torch for something aside from presenting the message of the political demonstration he was concerned in, which opposed the alternative of whites and their historical past all through the West. All the case was offered as a chance to place Dix on trial for the Second World Struggle and anti-Semitism since a minority of the protesters had chanted, “Jews won’t change us.” The prosecution referred to as Diane D’Acosta, who’s brown however identifies as Jewish, to say that she had heard chanting from her dorm room on the UVA garden and was afraid.
“I’m actually placing sheets on my mattress, and I hear a guttural, offended, rhythmic chant of ‘You’ll not change us,’” stated D’Costa. “It became ‘Jews won’t change us.’” It’s unclear how one would possibly figuratively or metaphorically put sheets on their mattress. Regardless, D’Acosta went on to testify about hiding a portray of a Star of David in her dormitory.
Traditional crybully ways: appearing like a sufferer whereas begging the state to lock up your political rivals.
The prosecution additionally referred to as James Loeffler, a radical Leftist Jewish professor from Johns Hopkins College, to testify about Nazi Germany. For sure, every little thing that occurred in Nazi Germany occurred virtually a century earlier than the Unite the Proper rally befell. Nobody on the rally, together with Dix, fought within the Second World Struggle or was a member of the Nazi Occasion. They have been Americans using their proper to protest. The testimony’s solely relevance was to try to instill prejudice within the jurors’ minds towards the defendant.
Most unwisely of all, the prosecution referred to as antifa transsexual Edward “Emily” Gorcenski to the stand, maybe believing all of the glowing mainstream media portrayals of this twisted particular person. They’d definitely seen none of my analysis on him that has been collected at VDARE, my private web site, and my recently-released e-book, Charlottesville and the Dying of Free Speech.
Gorcenski, who was in attendance with different antifa militants through the torch protest, denounced Dix and claimed to be a non-violence advocate. Though Decide H. Thomas Padrick solely allowed two out of the 4 tweets by Gorcenski I had archived to be admitted into proof, they have been devastating, together with one the place he tweeted, “I’m not towards violence, by all means punch the Nazi, burn a cop automobile.” Within the different tweet, Gorcenski boasted, “I actually *pulled a fucking gun* on August 12.”
Gorcenski put his foot in his mouth by volunteering the truth that he’d been contacted by the FBI on the night time of August 11, as brokers have been involved that he was planning violence towards the torch march. This opened up a sequence of damaging questions on a subject prosecutors would have most well-liked to keep away from.
After cross-examination, the often aggressive Gorcenski, complained on social media about being in “ache city” after getting “beat up” on the stand. He expressed that he feared — accurately — that his testimony had harm the prosecution.
The case was tried in Albemarle Circuit Courtroom however prosecuted by Henrico County Commonwealth Legal professional Shannon Taylor. The explanation for this mismatch was as a result of explosive and uncommon recusals of each a choose and your entire Albemarle County Commonwealths Legal professional’s workplace over undisclosed conflicts.
Proof uncovered by Dix’s legal professional, Peter Frazier, and myself confirmed that Decide Claude Worrell and his household have been witnesses to the occasions of the case, and his spouse, an antifa activist named Kathryn Laughon, had been publicly calling for the defendants to be prosecuted. Assistant Commonwealth’s Legal professional Lawton Tufts, who led the cost on the torch circumstances, was an activist for Black Lives Matter in addition to antifa teams that had been hoping to disrupt the Unite the Proper protests in 2017.
MISTRIAL! 🎉
Jacob Dix is a free man tonight after jurors fail to convict him for peacefully protesting whereas carrying a tiki torch (an American and European custom).
How FUCKING embarassing for the Albemarle County Commonwealth Legal professional. 😂 #Charlottesville pic.twitter.com/XFd3ul8Bhn
— Jason Kessler (@TheMadDimension) June 6, 2024
A juror ballot revealed how the all-white jury of 5 girls and 7 males voted: eight voted not responsible, three responsible, and one was undecided. Though double jeopardy doesn’t apply throughout a mistrial, and Taylor has already indicated that she is going to try and retry the case, the jury’s break up ought to trigger her to rethink the knowledge of following this path deeper right into a quagmire.
One other potential hurdle for a retrial is a movement listening to scheduled for August 22. Legal professional Frazier filed quite a few motions to dismiss the fees previous to trial. Decide Padrick dominated towards all however one, which argued for the unconstitutional vagueness of the fees towards Dix.
Some excerpts:
The regulation has no precedent in English widespread regulation . . . Dix and his codefendants are the primary folks ever charged underneath this regulation.§18.2-423.01 has a minimum of two deadly defects that render a standard man unable to know what conduct it prohibits: 1.) It’s unclear what it means to “burn an object” on this context; and a pair of.) it’s unclear how one, with the intent to intimidate, makes use of a burning object to place somebody in worry of demise or bodily hurt. As utilized to our case, the statute is just too obscure to tell a standard man whether or not carrying a tiki torch in public violates the phrases thereof.
The protection may need most well-liked for Decide Padrick to rule on the constitutionality of the cost earlier than trial, however he declined to take action. Now that he has seen the scant proof offered towards Dix (he was actually merely standing nonetheless with a lit torch), and the unwillingness of a jury to safe a conviction, maybe Padrick can be extra prone to finish the authorized course of earlier than extra money and time are wasted on a retrial.
I spoke with Dix by cellphone, and his spirits are excessive. He recounted a narrative demonstrating the prosecution’s rising desperation. After failing to safe a verdict, they supplied Dix a plea deal to take a misdemeanor with time served. Dix turned them down and not using a second thought. “I’d relatively have a felony document than give them permission to go after 300 of my comrades for peacefully protesting,” Dix advised me.
Dix’s angle is valiant, but sober. It’s true that prosecutors have been preying on males with out hearts for danger or battle, keen to plead responsible to issues they didn’t do relatively than danger jail time and authorized bills. Lots of the responsible pleas got here after bond had been denied to males with no prior legal information by the conflicted and recently-recused Decide Worrell. Dix is the primary man with the bravery to face the danger. He’s the bulwark towards the federal government merely steamrolling each man who attended the August 11 protest.
Dix’s case was and is the bellwether for all of the others. He has the perfect likelihood to beat it, too: the indefatigable protection of legal professional Frazier and Dix’s placing beauty and pleasant disposition characterize an uncharacteristic shock coming from a motion of principally dour males who’ve been pressured to endure smears and unjust persecution from the regulation for his or her political beliefs.
On this context, a mistrial is totally a victory. Not a complete one, however it’s a vital political, logistical, and public relations defeat for prosecutors with designs on arresting tons of of non-violent marchers with a purpose to appease crybully Left-wing activists.
Jason Kessler is the writer of Charlottesville and the Dying of Free Speech, accessible now from Dissident Press. Observe him on Telegram, Twitter, Odysee, and Gab. Additionally comply with Dissident Press on Twitter/X. We comply with you again!
