{"id":4847,"date":"2020-11-10T16:09:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T21:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4847"},"modified":"2020-11-10T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T21:10:06","slug":"sears-st-germaine-appeal-against-hate-law-conviction-sentence-proceeds-under-protest-via-zoom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4847","title":{"rendered":"Sears&#8217; St. Germaine Appeal Against &#8220;Hate Law&#8221; Conviction &#038; Sentence Proceeds Under Protest Via Zoom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"348\" src=\"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sears-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sears-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sears-1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sears-1-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sears&#8217; St. Germaine Appeal Against &#8220;Hate Law&#8221; Conviction &amp; Sentence Proceeds Under Protest Via Zoom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, November 5, Judge Peter Cavanaugh turned down a motion for postponement of the Appeal proceedings as a previous judge had abruptly ordered the Appeal by Dr. James Sears and Leroy St. Germaine to proceed by Zoom after the Crown Attorney said his life was a risk in open court as Dr. Sears cannot, for religious and medical reason, wear a mask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Appeal is against both the conviction and maximum one year sentence handed handed down in the matter of Sec. 319 &#8220;hate law&#8221; charges against satirical broadsheet editor Dr. James Sears and publisher Leroy St. Germaine,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a piece of legal arcana, the judge ruled that the order was not appealable at this stage but could only be challenged at a further appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The appeal proceeded today under protest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sears&#8217; St. Germaine Appeal Against &#8220;Hate Law&#8221; Conviction &amp; Sentence Proceeds Under Protest Via Zoom On Thursday, November 5, Judge Peter Cavanaugh turned down a motion for postponement of the Appeal proceedings as a previous judge had abruptly ordered the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4847\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,545,2551,2535,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4848,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847\/revisions\/4848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}