Conservatives, liberals, media advocates rally behind man jailed for criticizing Indiana judge

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'A group of free-speech advocates is rallying behind an Indiana inmate serving two years for his online rants against a judge who took away his child-custody rights during a divorce case.
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The group is led by University of California Los Angeles law professor Eugene Volokh and includes conservative lawyer James Bopp, a former executive director of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, the Indiana Association of Scholars, The Indianapolis Star and the James Madison Center for Free Speech.
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In his rants, Brewington called the judge a “child abuser” and “corrupt” and accused him of unethical or illegal behavior.

He argued that Humphrey taking away his children amounted to child abuse.
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Brewington's attorney Michael K. Sutherlin said his client may not have had “the rhetorical skill of Thomas Paine but like 18th-century pamphleteers, he used a popular forum of expression in his time (here, the Internet) to complain about unfair treatment by an oppressive system.”'