Uni-Hamburg Interview Preview I: The Judge in My Case Lied in Court
He accused Judge William A. Sweeney of criminal perjury , which could have ended Judge Sweeney's career
As of right now, nobody knows whether the University of Hamburg Law School intends on going ahead with its plan to invite Jens Söring for an interview on “rehabilitation” on 19 May 2022. The University quietly removed the Internet post announcing the interview, but the written handbills still remain.
I have asked the organizers, Professors Kuhli and Jessberger, whether the interview is still on, but they have not responded to any of my emails.
As a preview of what students can expect to hear, I’m going to post several previews of the many false accusations Söring has leveled against the US and UK police, prosecutors, judges, and the American judicial and prison systems. This way, everyone can get a foretaste of the kind of things Söring will say during his interview at the Hamburg law school on 19 May.
The reader can judge whether statements like these are suitable fare for a formal presentation sponsored by a publicly-funded German law faculty.
Söring Accuses Judge Sweeney of Perjury
I have obtained the legendary interview of Jens Söring with Johannes B. Kerner from 2007. This is a remarkable document in many ways. Most importantly, it contains an interview with Jens Söring in which he hurls insult after insult at the people who brought him to justice. In 2007, Söring didn’t have lawyers and PR consultants counseling him to tone down his accusations.
I will be posting many portions of this video here in the coming days. But let’s start with Söring’s accusation of perjury against Judge William A. Sweeney (I have provided English subtitles):
Söring here accuses Judge William A. Sweeney of being a “close friend” of the victim’s family, which is a lie. He then doubles down by accusing the judge of lying in court (something Söring, by the way, has done twice) by denying that friendship.
As I have pointed out in my old blog, the accusation that Judge Sweeney was a “close friend” of the Haysom family is false. Sweeney testified that he had superficial social contacts with some members of the Haysom family and considered Risque Benedict, Nancy Haysom’s brother, to be a college buddy and a friend — although, as Sweeney noted, they had seen each other only “four or five times” over a period of 40 years since graduating from college in the early 1950s. Judge Sweeney said: “The statement in the defense allegation that I was a close friend of the Haysoms is simply not true; I was not, as anybody in this area who knows anything about it knows.”
Neither Söring nor his lawyers have ever offered any evidence that these statements by Sweeney were false.
Of course, accusing a sitting judge of criminal perjury is a grave matter. It could lead to disbarment or even prosecution. It is libel per se under the common law. But that didn’t stop Jens Söring. Has Söring changed his tune since 2007? No. In his 2021 book “Return to Life”, Söring repeats the baseless accusation against Sweeney, who died in 2017.
Stay tuned next week for more discussion of Söring’s false accusation. And ask yourself — or better yet, ask the University of Hamburg — whether this is the kind of discourse they want to associate themselves with.