Posted on 05/30/2015 9:16:18 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
CLEVELAND — While acknowledging that he cannot appeal an acquittal, an Ohio prosecutor says a judge made serious errors before finding a Cleveland police officer not guilty in the deaths of two unarmed suspects, and he wants an appeals court to order the judge to correct the record.
The prosecutor, Timothy J. McGinty of Cuyahoga County, said in court documents that were posted Friday on The Plain Dealer website that Judge John O’Donnell’s reasoning in the voluntary-manslaughter trial of Officer Michael Brelo could set a legal precedent that would “endanger the public.”
Mr. McGinty said Officer Brelo’s acquittal on May 23 in the 2012 deaths of Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell in a storm of police bullets was based on the judge’s mistaken analysis of laws concerning police use of deadly force and on homicide involving more than one person who fired shots. He said the judge had also considered the wrong lesser charge — felonious assault — when he should have considered attempted voluntary manslaughter or aggravated assault.
“As it stands, the trial court’s verdict will endanger the public, allow for one of multiple actors to escape culpability and lead to more unnecessary deaths by police-created crossfire situations,” Mr. McGinty said in his filing with the appeals court. . .
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What actors are seeking several pounds of flesh for their agendas?
We need more kangaroo courts!
For the safety of the public!
Mr. McGinty is the one who failed. Seems to me he should resign his post in shame.
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Sore loser!
Seriously, how is Democrat supposed to advance their career when this happens? I mean, isn’t that more important than some cops?
I dunno, but it seems like a case of trigger happy cops.
137 shots?
Geez.
But this prosecutor claimed that 122 of those shots by the 12 officers were legally justified, only the final 15 by Brelo were not simply becuse he was standing on the hood of the car.
Shame? There is no virtue of shame anymore. American reality shows and career politicians have ended the concept of shame. It's a defunct value that doesn't fit anymore within our mores.
The prosecutor, Timothy J. McGinty of Cuyahoga County, said in court documents that were posted Friday on The Plain Dealer website that Judge John O’Donnell’s reasoning in the voluntary-manslaughter trial of Officer Michael Brelo could set a legal precedent that would “endanger the public.”
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I didn’t think trial court judges set precedents. I thought that could only be done by appeals courts.
These prosecutors throw these cases for their cop buddies, then lay the blame on the juries (or, here the Judge).
A liberal never takes the blame when he/she/other screws up.
Dumb prosecutor is in for some real fun the next time he appears before the judge he’s now trashing.
Something a judge does for the first time that other judges could emulate is a precedent even if it is not a formal Precedent that must be considered.
Yes, but then again you’re not a Democrat running for public office in Cleveland.
Yes, the officers lost it, and yes somebody killed these two, who didn't need killing. The officers involved, some at least, stand on jeopardy of discipline up to losing their jobs. But there is little evidentiary basis for a judicial finding.
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