Judge David Paterson sentenced Cameron Hardy to a year in jail, in part to deter others from subjecting the court to ‘organized pseudo-legal commercial arguments’
A provincial court judge in Prince Rupert, B.C., has sentenced a 46-year-old man to a year in jail for contempt of court, ruling he tried to circumvent the justice system with “pseudolegal” and “stupid” arguments.
Paterson’s ruling says Hardy, who was facing a charge of resisting arrest in 2021, considers himself a “freeman,” meaning he won’t accept that courts have jurisdiction over him and falsely believes Canadian law doesn’t apply to him. The decision says Hardy deliberately tried to thwart the trial process, but Paterson says he didn’t order a psychiatric assessment because he found Hardy to be intelligent, but an “anti-government ideologist.”
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