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> "And who is identifiable" is doing some heavy lifting here and could be legally ambiguous. Sure, that's what a jury and/or judge is for. The defendant has a
by anonymouskimmer 3y ago
> "And who is identifiable" is doing some heavy lifting here and could be legally ambiguous.
Sure, that's what a jury and/or judge is for. The defendant has a lot of potential defenses against a civil claim. The criminal portion of the law is tighter:
: “(a) Offense.—Whoever, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, discloses or threatens to disclose an intimate digital depiction—
:: “(1) with the intent to harass, annoy, threaten, alarm, or cause substantial harm to the finances or reputation of the depicted individual; or
:: “(2) with actual knowledge that, or reckless disregard for whether, such disclosure or threatened disclosure will cause physical, emotional, reputational, or economic harm to the depicted individual,
The legal definition of "reckless": https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/reckless_disregard https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/reckless_disregard
: reckless action is distinguished from negligent action in that the actor consciously disregards a substantial and unjustified risk, as opposed to merely being unreasonable. For example, in State v. Olson, a 1990 South Dakota Supreme Court decision, the court did not find a tractor driver who turned left at 5-15 mph and hit another car reckless because the prosecution could not prove that he was aware that there was an oncoming car.
- _heimdall 3y agoBased on how today's courts operate, juries aren't offered the opportunity to interpret law. Lawyers will present a specific interpretation of laws they deem relevant to the case, they will provide facts and evidence of the charge, and ask juries to decide based solely on that. Ultimately it is left to judges to interpret law. Meaning that if laws are passed with ambiguous definitions unelected judges get to decide how they think the blanks should be filled in. Our elected officials can then, if they choose, pass laws with the intent of leaving them ambiguous to allow unelected judges to effectively write laws completely unbeholden to the very voters that they are meant to serve.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoFor this law juries don't need to interpret the law, merely deciding whether the clauses of the law have been met or not is enough. Saying that they don't think the plaintiff or prosecution met the burden of proof is fine. In the US jury nullification is also a right. If the jury thinks that the law is too draconian for the facts of the case they can vote to acquit.