Anyone been following Russell brand’s rape trial?

[Seed]

@Consept he has to serve a minimum of seven years.

when he leaves his kids will be 17, 15 and 10 … he’ll have missed all their young childhood. 

one of his kids has a rare syndrome and is often poorly. He had to have open heart surgery when he was born and continues to have health issues.

 

 

 

[Thought Art]

Seems like a lot of me I grew up thinking were famous and interesting also are accused of sexual misconduct at least 

[Wilhelm44]

15 minutes ago, Seed said:

he has to serve a minimum of seven years.

Will the appeal process not bring this down to 5 eventually ?

[Seed]

@Wilhelm44 an appeal would mean a retrial.  But he has to have grounds to have that accepted. He can just appeal because he’s unhappy about the sentence length.

So far. He’s got a min of 7 as it’s a rape charge and all rape charges have to serve 2/3 behind bars.

He’s now sacked his lawyer due to mistreatment of the victims in cross examination which then prejudiced the jury. 
 

he’s been very unfortunate is all I can say….. it was a very odd trial

[Wilhelm44]

2 minutes ago, Seed said:

@Wilhelm44 an appeal would mean a retrial.  But he has to have grounds to have that accepted. He can just appeal because he’s unhappy about the sentence length.

So far. He’s got a min of 7 as it’s a rape charge and all rape charges have to serve 2/3 behind bars.

He’s now sacked his lawyer due to mistreatment of the victims in cross examination which then prejudiced the jury. 
 

he’s been very unfortunate is all I can say….. it was a very odd trial

So you don't think there will be any appeal at all ?

[Seed]

2 minutes ago, Wilhelm44 said:

So you don't think there will be any appeal at all ?

I don’t know what would be deemed as sufficient grounds for appeal?

I’m sure they will try - and the incompetency of the barrister is probably their strongest argument.

itll be hard to find an unbiased jury again though. It’s a tough gig. He’s really dug himself a Grand Canyon size hole 🕳️