Another sovereign citizen finds out his legal theories don’t work:
A man who made online threats to “string ... up” former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and wrote about building gallows presented “legal gobbledygook” in his defence, a judge said.
Richard Trevor Sivell was yesterday convicted at a judge-alone trial of threatening to kill Ardern between November 26, 2021, and January 19, 2022, when she was still Prime Minister.
He was also convicted on two charges of obstructing police by refusing to come out of his caravan when they raided his Te Puke property in March 2022 and failing to provide the PIN for his seized mobile phone.
The Taupō 42-year-old represented himself when he appeared before Judge Christopher Harding in the Tauranga District Court.
NZ Herald
