Posted on 11/25/2014 7:21:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Legal experts across the country agree that while the process that led to a grand jury’s decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson for killing Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, was unusual, it was not unfair. Rather if it was anything unusual, it was in its fairness and openness.
Lawyers and academics told The Washington Times that, despite their personal opinions on the case, which has sparked riots over police brutality, St. Louis county prosecutor Robert McCulloch sought unbiased justice in presenting the jury with every piece of evidence and then making that evidence public.
“It was the most thorough grand jury investigation that I’ve ever heard of,” said Stephen Saltzburg, a professor of law at George Washington University Law School.
Media outlets and supporters of Mr. Brown have said that Mr. McCulloch’s prosecution was unusual because he did not go in with the goal of seeking an indictment in secret, as most prosecutors do....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
The Grand Jury did its job.
Liberals are upset because it didn’t lynch a white cop.
If it had been the other way around, they would have accused the justice system of trying to frame a black man.
No wonder they like to have it both ways.
legal scholar sure.. but how many black killers has the scholar given Free Representation to?..../s
WTH(eck)
CNN spent the day today trying to convince people the process was flawed and biased to the point of criminality.
What the media gets away with astounds me.
The same liberals who are crying about Michael Brown, if he were alive, wouldn’t have let Michael Brown into their house if their lives depended on it..they trash the police but when they need it, who surrounds them, the cops
Since it was on CNN, you can take comfort in the fact that nobody saw it. :=)
It don’t matter, dat rasis cracka cop gotta hang, cuz he be a white devil.
Fair has nothing to do with it.
Right and wrong are all that matter.
That was a very fair grand jury. Mind you most of the time its a one sided prosecutorial process.
These welfare slobs haven’t been forced the cruel realities of life. That’s why they natter on about “fairness”. Life isn’t fair.
Leo Terrell, one of OJ’s attorney’s today said it was the RIGHT decision.
“Usually you don’t hear what evidence they considered,” Mr. Saltzburg said. “I give the prosecutor top marks in terms of transparency and accountability.”
Actually secrecy is one of the main jobs of a Grand Jury.
The process of a Grand Jury hearing is supposed to be secret.
The secrecy is to protect the subject of the grand jury from being slandered in the public eye by an unscrupulous prosecutor.
Of course in this case Wilson could hardly be further harmed by what was going on inside the Grand Jury room.
Still I am not so sure that it was ethical for the prosecutor to release the evidence to the press.
In the Bible, if I’m not mistaken, the only place fair occurs is in reference to the texture of a woman’s skin.
The welfare slobs, poverty pimps, bleeding hearts and other emotional cripples love “fair” because it really has nothing to do with right and wrong. It just captures the emotion of what they think they deserve.
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