Mon Oct 17, 2022 – 4:47 pm EDT
HARNETT COUNTY, North Carolina (LifeSiteNews) – A trial judge in North Carolina incarcerated a would-be juror for 24 hours for refusal to wear a COVID-19 face mask, despite the fact that neither state nor courthouse rules required him to have a face covering.
Fox News reported that Gregory Hahn, a Navy veteran called to Harnett County Courthouse for potential jury duty, says he was singled out among 98 potential jurors during roll call when he “made eye contact with the clerk, and she said, ‘I need you to come over here for not wearing the mask,’” because Democrat-nominated Judge Charles Gilchrist had personally required masks.
“We were in [an assembly room] for about 20 to 30 minutes, shoulder-to-shoulder, with three-quarters of us not wearing masks,” Hahn told Fox News’s Tucker Carlson. “So the virus – if there was virus out there – contaminated us anyway.”
He says he argued to Gilchrist that there were no state or county-level mask mandates in effect, but the judge warned him he would be in contempt of court for refusing to wear one, punishable by up to a $500 fine and 30
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