Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 12/18

[SVPete]

After Damaging Testimony, the Government Rests Its Case Against Judge Dugan

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2025/12/17/the-government-rests-its-case-against-judge-dugan-n3809996

This is flying by much faster than I expected. After calling several more witnesses today, the government rested its case. The defense plans to call four witnesses tomorrow and then we should have closing arguments tomorrow afternoon. That means the jury will get this case Friday and we could have a decision before the weekend.

But let's not get ahead of ourselves. This morning we had some more testimony that hurt Judge Dugan's case, particularly the testimony of Chief Judge Carl Ashley. He testified that there was a draft proposal for rules about how to handle ICE arrests. However, that proposal had not been put in place and, even if it had, Judge Ashley testified he and the other judges had no right to interfere in arrests taking place in the public hallway of the courthouse, nor did the draft require anyone to visit his office.

Sexton has been following this case. Prosecution witnesses have been - or seem to have been - devastating. Of course, the defense gets their turn, which could turn the case around. Sexton opined yesterday that Dugan's strategy might be to go for jury nullification, a Not Guilty verdict in despite of evidence and the law.

[SVPete]

Federal lawsuit claims ‘victims’ created racist, online threats at MSU for political gain

https://dailymontanan.com/2025/09/03/federal-lawsuit-claims-victims-created-racist-online-threats-at-msu-for-political-gain/

A man who recently admitted to making hoax death threats on the campus of Montana’s largest university has been sued in federal court by two former Montana State University students for his part in orchestrating the hoax by framing them and allegedly destroying their reputations.

In a lawsuit filed in federal court that reads more like a mystery novel than court brief, an attorney laid out the details of a conspiracy, alleging former student Rex Wu orchestrated hoax death threats and violent racially charged messages against his friend, Alexandra Lin. Both used the incidents to push them toward victory in student elections, the lawsuit says, while destroying the reputations of two other students. Court documents lay out the scheme Wu used to allegedly frame the two other students so as to look as if Wu and Lin had been racially targeted as Chinese-Americans.

The lawsuit asks a federal court judge to find Wu guilty of defamation and putting plaintiffs Dylan Dean and Daria Danley in a false light that made it nearly impossible to attend Montana State University. The lawsuit also seeks punitive damages as well as attorney’s fees, and a judgment for the pain and suffering inflicted upon both of them by Wu’s actions.
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Meanwhile,  court documents allege Wu created a sophisticated series of accounts that expressed support for neo-Nazi views and invited the MSU community to push back against diversity. The lawsuit claims that Wu created email accounts that linked Danley and Dean to the racially charged messages, and that Wu specifically leveraged his friendship with Dean to make it appear as if Dean had created the accounts or supported the views. This also landed Dean in trouble, getting several different credentials revoked, including a security TSA pre-check denied, as well as causing him to graduate late.

Both Dean and Danley identified as “conservative, white” students, but “no indications of racial hostility.”

Has any known Hate-Hoax avoided exposure longer than 6 months?