Tarot TikToker must pay $10M to professor she accused in Moscow murders, jury says

[muriel_volestrangler]

A jury in Boise awarded $10 million in damages Friday to a University of Idaho professor who sued a Texas woman for defamation over fabricated claims she repeatedly made on social media that the academic was responsible for the Moscow college student murders.

The jurors deliberated for just under two hours before handing down their decision, which awarded professor Rebecca Scofield far more than what her attorneys asked for in their closing argument.
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About two weeks into the investigation of the four students’ stabbing deaths in November 2022, defendant Ashley Guillard, 41, of Houston, created a series of videos she posted to TikTok in which she blamed Scofield.
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In the professor’s civil suit, Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Raymond Patricco for the District of Idaho already ruled for Scofield in June 2024. This week’s jury trial at the federal courthouse in Boise, also overseen by Patricco, was held solely to determine how much money Guillard was required to pay Scofield.

Read more at: https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/northwest/idaho/article314859753.html

Good - these con-artists have to be made to pay, literally, when they try to ruin innocent lives for fame and monetary gain. Via Wonkette