Re: Media is silent over recent affair involving a Loudon County official and 15-year old female
Posted by:
EmJW9
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Date: June 08, 2016 11:20AM
WRONG: say the name. say the complained of action but not the code charge prosecution is SEEKING, say any facts but NEVER rumors. say allof these in public. be sued if you say rumors before a trial and are proven wrong
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to be legally correct: you never hide names always trials are public (excepting the name of the minor in SPECIAL situations it would be UNDULY embarassing - such as a rape)
to be legally correct (cp, not to bias the public or harm image which causes "legal injury" - legal injury can be worse than the injury what one is being charged with - thus there are laws to protect use of courts to injure others - even polititians)
you can say a name of who is calling who to court
you can say any facts related as long as they are provable (if not you can be sued for spreading rumors)
you can say the complained action the person did (ie, removed an item from store) but not something like "stole the item". for example a forgetful person might simply leave pass the cashier and once in parking lot, seeing how forgetful they had been: double back to pay. the action complained of cannot always be proven and if it is proven OFTEN is not illegal or perhaps is illegal only if there was a motive (such as proven intent to NEVER pay).
you CANNOT say what the "code charges are" since they are unproven and likely incorrect these days (infact, most courts in the USA file these improperly; the charge is not known until the acts, injury, and motive (and situations, such as volunteering or warnings) are known is the actual deal)