Dr. Simone Gold
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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And I'm a lawyer, too, and I'm looking at this and said, what does this 1512 witness tampering and evidence shredding statute have to do with me? I was literally walking through crowds and gave a speech. I understood trespass. I understood parading. Then we could talk about selective prosecution, like why are you prosecuting me and not everybody from the Summer of Love.
Conservatives don't get to protest. That's really the rule. But this was weird. This 20-year felony was weird. It had no relation at all to us. And I couldn't, it was a 20-year penalty. So this is how they got virtually everybody to roll over. They were very, very eager for Jay Sixers to just take a plea. So the narrative is, oh, we all pled guilty. It was just a terrible thing.
So when I discovered it was a 20-year felony, I did take the plea. I couldn't afford a felony as a doctor and a lawyer. There was no way I could keep my life. I mean, as a practical matter, I would have lost my licenses. And I had an organization to run. I couldn't be put away for years. It was out of the question. And on a personal level, it's pretty scary.
So for all of those reasons, I accepted the plea. And I plead to a misdemeanor trespass. Now, exactly how many misdemeanors do you find going to prison? Mm-hmm. Low number. That zero number that you like.
No misdemeanors in America go to prison. So I was expecting when I showed up at trial to... Right, and that would be an expected part of the plea too, right?
That you, I mean, you have no, you go through the person's past. Does she have a violent past? Has she ever been convicted of anything? You know, is this a gang offense? Is there a violence here? You know, does she have a way to employ herself? You know, there's a lot of risks that go into when you put someone into prison or not. Of course, I didn't think I was going to prison.
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Of course we knew each other. We kind of lightly dated.
Okay?
And I thought that if anything, he would have been, uh, Nicer to me, like, certainly we had nothing negative, really, but he should have recused himself.
Because the standard for recusal is not just conflict. It's the appearance of impropriety. It's not the actual impropriety. It's the appearance of impropriety. I mention this little interesting aside because the District of Columbia judges, almost to a man, are so smug that they don't even think they're going to be overruled if you've been to school and dated a defendant.
They're like, oh, no, that's no problem. And I am sad as a lawyer to know that's the standard. So the appears of impropriety, which of course this is. And I bring it up because when I stood before him, I felt this heat of hatred and anger emanating from him. All the other hearings every month were on Zoom. But for sentencing, I had to show up in person.
And there was so much hatred from him towards me that I will never know if it was personal or personal. or just his beliefs on Jay Sixth. And he should never have been in that situation. That is why judges who have an appearance of impropriety are to recuse themselves. And I just want everyone to be aware cognizant of how the infrastructure of fascism is kind of already there in America.
No one's checking him. Anyone responsible would have said, you know, get off this case. It's crazy. There's other judges. You didn't. So that exists. Anyway, he sentences me to 60 days, which was insanely harsh. And then the Bureau of Prison puts their thumb on the scale. And instead of sending me to a camp, they send me to a maximum.
So you ask me.
It's a. Yeah.
I was utterly, utterly shocked. It's one of the few times over the past four years that when I got outside, I started to cry. I couldn't believe it. In my whole life. What was the shock?
No, you have the greatest questions. Standing in a courtroom, and I heard them say the United States of America versus Simone Melissa Gold. This is my country. I'm an enemy of the country? Like, it was so awful, that moment. But when he sentenced me to prison, it was like I couldn't even process that. Again, I'm a person who's not prone to panic. It was such an overwhelming moment for me.
It was such an overwhelming moment.
Yes, I think so. It hasn't changed my actions and it won't, but it is extremely traumatic.
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