Trial thread

I find the defendant Charlameme ...

On some number of counts of 100.03 Griefing: Guilty by evidence of confession. However, there is a tricky issue here regarding how MANY counts of griefing apply.

The constitution offers no mention of "buildings" or any clear definition of what the extent of a piece of property is. Nor is it likely to be able to do this in the future, since "builds" come in all shapes and sizes, blend into one another, sometimes have no walls or doors, may be owned by multiple people, etc. Thus, we cannot reasonably base counts of crimes on buildings, because that will fail in many cases.

We also cannot leave the number of counts up to whatever the prosecution feels like asking for. Otherwise, one could request one count of griefing for every individual XZ coordinate, which could in this case have been dozens or a hundred counts, which would be completely unreasonable.

The best method I can think of for determining "counts" is instead to base it off of how many victims there were for a given "incident" or short period of connected time. This griefing all happened in one shot, and there are two known victims here, relevant to the confessions the defendant made and the charges filed: Figasaur and Cr0C. Whether the JQPA might have counted as more is an interesting puzzle, but it is a moot point here, since nobody else was named as a member other than these same two people anyway.

Therefore, I assign TWO counts of griefing to Charlameme. Each with the maximum sentence, due to the heinous nature of obby bombing. This is 2 weeks pearling in total.

On the charge of 100.04 requested at the end of the trial: Neither guilty nor not-guilty, because you can't add charges at the end of the trial. It violates defendants' rights in III.A.iv. Defendants have a right to know what they are being charged with clearly during the proceedings and defense. So no judgment is passed on this charge at this time.

On the request for a restraining order: These don't exist. The plaintiffs are free to tell the defendant that he is not welcome on their property, along with whatever consequences that may hold. But the court has no authority to add any extra legitimacy or strength to this, outside of it leading to a trial somehow later on.

Prison or exile pearl? If the prosecution optionally donates their own extra mana to pay for prison pearling, the defendant may be prison pearled for as long as that donation will finance for the remainder of the sentence. Any other portion of the time will be exile pearl.

Thank you everyone.