>>I do think that law schools ought to develop an entire course around the ‘Twin Peaks’ episode and talk about the need to assess complex cases early on, and have a written plan or list of objectives.
You can’t teach that in law school and even if you could, the law students would forget it all by the time it became relevant.
Contrary to what is actually alleged here and elsewhere, I really don’t think the cops shot anyone who wasn’t firing a weapon. Does anyone making that claim have ANY evidence showing that? What I heard immediately after the incident was that the cops stood down and were criticized for that. Later, they were accused of killing the bikers — i.e. the exact opposite of what was alleged before. I don’t think everything was done correctly here (quite the opposite) but murder is a huge stretch. A cop drives up, sees a shootout, and just starts firing his weapon into it. That doesn’t make a whole lot of sense for several reasons:
— a cop is trained to cover first; you can’t shoot if you’re already shot; covering takes time and this shootout didn’t last long
— the cop doesn’t know that the DA is going to make a mess of the case and cover his actions up
— internal affairs still exists over and above the DA; the cop at the scene has no idea how his actions will be judged
— there’s video literally everywhere and cops know that; they knew this back then; this isn’t 1970; they aren’t going to shoot into a crowd thinking there MIGHT be a video recording that
I want a complete timeline from all of the videos and sound data collection. Note that the cops had plenty of such AND THAT THEY TOOK ALL OF THE SMART PHONES ON SITE TO DELETE THOSE DATA.
Total coverup since that has not been produced.
Now there is a false statement about this event if any has ever been made. Prior to the violence, law enforcement installed black recording boxes on poles in the parking lot.
Under the Brady law, the footage from those devices is required to be released to the defense. The results of the early trials were overturned because it exists, and was not provided to the defense
and to this day it remains secret from the defense, and from the public.
Those weren’t cops. It was a straight up hit. Every would was a .223. I have been through the autopsies. ONE biker was shot in the gut with a .38 but it was the .223 to the brain that killed him. It was straight up murder. But, no. No one will ever go to jail. There will never be any trial. The public will never see the evidence.