A University of Pennsylvania Constitutional Law Professor believes the tarot card reading Texas TikToker could be in legal trouble beyond a defamation lawsuit.
Rebecca Scofield, an associate professor and the chair of the history department at the University of Idaho, slammed TikTok personality Ashley Guillard with a lawsuit earlier this month for defamation, after Guillard recorded numerous TikToks linking Scofield to the murders of four university students who were stabbed to death in November.
Despite receiving a lawsuit, and investigators ruling out the professor as a suspect in the quadruple murder, Guillard has doubled-down on her claims. “They will see in court why it is true,” Guillard told NewsNation. “When I go to court and they see the evidence or they see how I connect the dots, then they’ll make a decision as it pertains to whether they want to continue to live in blinders or believe it,” Guillard said. “If they don’t, I don’t care.”
Following Guillard’s NewsNation interview, Constitutional Law professor Kermit Roosevelt envisioned a chain of events in which continuing the false claims against Scofield could land Guillard behind bars. “You have the crazy world of the internet where people are taken in by conspiracy theories,” Roosevelt said on Law&Crime’s Sidebar podcast. “It’s very hard to undo something like this.”
“Wouldn’t there be some order she has to stop saying this?” Sidebar host Jesse Weber asked the professor.
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