A climate activist is sentenced for disobedience to law enforcement after a car blockade in Stockholm earlier this year. However, the Stockholm district court decides that he will not receive any punishment, because he acted to protect the climate, reports P4 Seven-way.
“It is a matter of acute emergency and therefore it is clearly unreasonable to impose a penalty,” writes the district court.
The verdict is a so-called jury verdict, where two of the three jurors in the case voted down the legal judge. At 2–2, the mildest results for the defendant must be sentenced, which is why the man now escapes punishment.
– As a legal judge and the third member of the jury, I wanted to convict and did not consider that there were conditions for a remission of penalties, says chief councilor Axel Peterson to P4.
– It is clear that the outcome stands out, he says further.
So-called jury verdicts are often changed on appeal in a higher instance.