Trial of Jörð Havardr

The Trial of Jörð Havardr, sometimes referred to by the formal name of the United Socialist States of Eldham vs. Jörð Havardr, or the more fanatical name of the Lynching of Earth was a legal trial and subsequent execution that took place on September 11th, 2021, in the city of Laria in the USSE. The defendant in the case was Jörð Havardr.
==== Accused Crimes ====
Jörð was accused of six crimes within the USSE legal system including the following:
* Assault, aggrevated
* Harassment
* Malpolitics
* Theft
* Espionage
* High Treason
==== Background ====
On July 24th, 2021, Jörð Havardr illegally detained and tortured a USSE citizen by the name of Egor Tsukanov before their own criminal trial in the city of Nordstad in Xeka. Tsukanov ended up pleading guilty to all of the crimes he was charged with resulting in his banishment of the USSE, a move that has been criticized and may have been a forced plea deal he made after the torture. A few days later on the 26th, Havardr admitted in the USSE Discord to having "torture methods" that needed to be tested out in the Nordstad Prison.
On August 17th, 2021, a party of several individuals including Havardr broke into Xeroise Ronango'O's home during a bout of inactivity and stole over 50+ bottles of vodka and allegedly several other items and artifacts. This was found out as a result of witness eye testimony and a discussion in the Discord with jokes about "redistributing Xeroise's vodka"
On September 8th, 2021, a diplomat from Vanshire reached out to the USSE asking for economic aid and even offered to the annexed by the nation. The USSE declined to annex the nation but would've been willing to accept the economic aid. Havardr used his positioning as a dual citizen to intercept these messages and move forth with the Xekan annexation of Vanshire knowing that they were economically and collectively diminished in numbers.
==== Trial ====
The trial began with Havardr pleading guilty to two of the crimes he was charged with. These included aggravated assault and harassment, the rest he had plead not guilty to. Immediately both the defense and prosecution began their opening statements. After this, the defendant began being examined. Xeroise Ronango'O, the Lead Prosecutor, gave a long forty minute long examination of the defendant intended to draw doubt on Jörð's claims that Vanshire was annexed to bring humanitarian aid and development to the nation and make the jury doubt his testimony.
Afterwards, the defense began a short examination of the defendant where they attempted to validate the idea that Havardr never intended to do anything bad. This was met with another cross-examination from the prosecution where they brought up the assault and harassment to which they had plead guilty to and managed to seemingly convince the jury that since Jörð had previously hurt the establishment of the USSE, it is not a stretch that his actions with Vanshire were outright treason and espionage, if not malpolitics.
==== Outcome ====
Half way through the trial during a recess after the final cross-examination of the defendant by the prosecution, Xeroise and Jörð's ex-wife Snow Tinttu got suddenly married. Upon Jörð coming back and seeing this, he proceeded to beat Snow with a slice of stale bread. This was met with outrage by the jury and spectators. They proceeded to get out of their seats and beat Havardr to the death in the middle of the courthouse, he attempted to jump over a table before being slammed in the head with a netherite axe by Xeroise Ronango'O which promptly killed him. His body was desecrated and his head decapitated, his head being put on a pike in the middle of Laria's marketplace.
After he was killed, court was resumed and the five-member jury unanimously found him to be guilty of all charges.
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