Tarot card reader Ashley Guillard, who falsely accused history professor Rebecca Scofield, plans to appeal
A self-proclaimed psychic who in TikTok videos falsely accused a University of Idaho professor of being involved in the murders of four of the school’s students in 2022 is appealing for relief after a civil court jury ordered her to pay $10m in damages to the educator.
In a recent legal filing that she prepared herself, tarot card reader Ashley Guillard called the case brought against her by history professor Rebecca Scofield “fraudulent” and asked the federal court in Idaho where a jury delivered a verdict against her to set aside the judgment.
A separate filing by Guillard also served notice that she would appeal the outcome of Scofield’s lawsuit to the ninth US circuit court of appeals in San Francisco, which handles federal cases from Idaho.
Many have interpreted the case pitting Scofield against Guillard as an instance of true-crime content creation run amok, highlighted by the fact that it was a criminology graduate student from Washington state named Bryan Kohberger – not the plaintiff – who ultimately pleaded guilty to the 13 November 2022 murders of Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin and Kaylee Goncalves at a home in Moscow, Idaho.
Before authorities arrested Kohberger in late December 2022 in connection with the victims’ brutal stabbing deaths, Guillard published videos on the TikTok platform baselessly alleging Scofield had engaged in a romance...
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