I suspect what the
@ResidentMerkin is trying to say/figure out is the reason why I am so livid about the whole judgement.
MM said it was a private letter.
ANL said it was written for the public to see.
Judge says the letter was worded like a private letter, so must have been a private letter, which is why she could expect privacy.
I say, it is not the wording that makes a letter private but the intention to keep it private.
So how is the judge able to make a decision without having seen any evidence?
If only one text message or email would have said "I don't care how you do it, I want that letters content out!" or "Nah, Scobie, don't you worry, you'll get the whole letter exclusively, People magazine just gets the gist." it would have been clear the letter was written to be printed/made known to the world/for citation ad nauseam.
But the judge never made her hand over the text messages and emails ANL requested a couple of times! Never ever!
Which means he didn't have all the information required, he didn't follow the law, because if she has to hand in something and she does not, she has to be made to and he didn't make her to.
And this is why I'll say this was rigged until I die.
If the judge was right taking her word and the wording as the only evidence needed it follows she could have handed out copies on Piccadilly, put the letter on Twitter, claimed it to be private regardless and ANL would still not have been allowed to print more than a sentence or two, right? I don't think so!