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[Kings Bay Ploughshares 7]
OPENING arguments began on Monday in the criminal trial of seven US peace activists who, on April 4, 2018, breached security and were arrested on the Kings Bay Trident Submarine Base in Georgia.
The base is home to six US Trident submarines and also periodically services the British fleet of four Vanguard-class Trident submarines.
As proceedings began and a jury was selected, the defendants sat patiently beneath a portrait of Sir Thomas More, looking down on them from the mahogany-coloured walls of a federal courtroom in Brunswick, Georgia.
Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Former judge ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the details and controversy of Lucy Letby’s trial and appeal in the context of famous historical wrongful convictions that prove both the justice system and legal activists make errors
The heroism of the jury who defied prison and starvation conditions secured the absolute right of juries to deliver verdicts based on conscience — a convention which is now under attack, writes MAT COWARD