[null and void]

I’d like a second opinion. Any other lawyers want to chime in?

[j.havenfarm]

Yeah, I slept through my torts class my first year of law school.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious_prosecution

[tsomer]

No lawyer, but the judges remarks suggest a strong bias, so maybe they can appeal.

It seems all might take to knock down this house of cards would be one favorable ruling for one defendant, or ‘official’ acknowledgement or recognition anywhere that fraud altered the outcome. Then you could say the actions of defendants were undertaken to preserve the government, etc.

That might win in front of a jury, say in Loudon County.
Call me romantic I guess, but I still think sometimes right gives might.

[tsomer]

Could they get any mileage out of this:

"'...but I want the sentence to hurt,' Walton said."

That doesn't seem impartial to me.