Appeals court overturns right-wing influencer’s conviction for spreading 2016 election falsehoods
The New York (AP)-Federal Court of Appeal overthrew the conviction of a mistake to social media in order to suppress democratic participation in the 2016 Presidential elections.
The 2nd US Circuit Court in Manhattan ordered a sub -court to be acquitted for Douglass Mackey, and found that the proof of the hearing did not prove that the government’s conspiracy with others to influence the election of the Florida man.
Mackey, 36, He was sentenced in March 2023 In the federal court in Brooklyn, the democratic candidate Hillary Clinton said that his supporters can vote with text message or social media post.
He was sentenced to federal imprisonment for seven months.
“Hallelujah!” Mackey wrote to X after the 2nd Circuit’s decision was published on Wednesday. In his follow -up messages, he thanked God, his family, his wife, his lawyers and his supporters and threatened legal proceedings on his conviction.
One of Mackey’s appeal was Yaakov Roth, currently assistant at the Deputy Prosecutor in charge of the Civil Department of the Ministry of Justice.
The office of the federal prosecutors in Brooklyn refused to comment.
While charging Mackey, the prosecutors claimed that between September and November 2016, a woman standing in front of the African African Americans for Hillary ”sign, such as a photograph of a woman who was conspiring with others to publish. In Avoid the line. Vote from the house, ”he said tweet. “Metin ‘Hillary’ to 59925.”
According to the trial statement, approximately 5,000 people followed the instructions of the breast. The 2nd circuit received an automatic response to almost all social media broadcasts that were not related to the Clinton campaign and said, “There was no evidence that Mackey’s tweets deceived the failure to vote for anyone.”
Mackey, who had 58,000 followers at the time, released Charlie Sheen’s character in Major League, Ricky Vaughn.
While overthrowing Mackey’s conviction, the three referees wrote “only real” to stand alone, to stand alone, to prove a violation by wounding other citizens while using their right to vote.
“The government had to show that Mackey had deliberately reached an agreement with other people to follow this goal.“ This government could not.
Livingston and Raggi were appointed by Republican President George W. Bush. Robinson was appointed by Democrat President Joe Biden.
In the punishment of Mackey, the trial judge Ann M. Donnellly said that a conspiracy was önündeşim nothing but an attack on our democracy ”.
The second circuit decided that the primary evidence of a conspiracy for a conspiracy was at best resistant.
At the hearing of Mackey, prosecutors showed that they have proved their intention to intervene in people who have been exchanged in private Twitter groups and people who use their voting rights. However, the three referee panels decided that prosecutors did not offer enough evidence that Mackey has even been involved in joining any of these changes ”.
“In the absence of such evidence, the remaining conditional evidence of the government alone cannot establish Mackey’s knowing agreement,” he wrote.
