'Elon Musk testifies in California 'pedo guy' court case'

[Nearly Sane]

This seems like a flimsy defence.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50653531

[Walter]

This seems like a flimsy defence.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50653531

this seems like a flimsy post .

No one biting today ?

[jeremyp]

This seems like a flimsy defence.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50653531

It would have been a legitimate defence if Musk hadn't doubled down on the Tweet later, by repeating his accusation to a journalist, offering to take a bet on it and hiring a private detective to try to prove it was true. Unsworth would have accepted that it was just an insult and moved on with his life had those latter things not happened.

[Nearly Sane]

And jury finds no defamation???


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-us-canada-50695593?__twitter_impression=true

[Robbie]

I don't get it at all, it was a dreadful thing to say.

[Roses]

And jury finds no defamation???


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-us-canada-50695593?__twitter_impression=true

SHOCKING! 

[Harrowby Hall]

And jury finds no defamation???


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-us-canada-50695593?__twitter_impression=true

This was in California. And this was a civil case - not a criminal case. In some American states juries are used to try civil cases as well as criminal cases. Who knows what goes on in jury rooms. And who knows how the jury was selected.

This case is a situation similar to the RoundUp case of about a year ago when a jury determined (with no real substantiating scientific evidence) that a groundsman who had used RoundUp almost every day for many years could claim against Monsanto/Bayer for the development of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. In English Civil Law cases are determined by judges.