Posted on 09/07/2014 3:32:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The St. Louis County prosecutor’s office is taking an unusual approach with grand jury members who are weighing evidence against the police officer who shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown last month, experts and county officials said.
Instead of telling grand jury members what charges they believe police officer Darren Wilson should face, they are leaving it open-ended for now and involving the grand jury as co-investigators.
The prosecutor’s office is also presenting evidence to the grand jury as soon as it receives it, rather than waiting until the St. Louis County Police Department and the FBI have completed their investigations. Police probes are typically completed before a case is presented to a grand jury, county officials said.
As a result, jurors in the Wilson case are hearing from every eyewitness, seeing every telling photo, viewing every relevant video and reviewing all DNA, ballistics and other test results from county and FBI labs...
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The defense ALWAYS gets all evidence pre-trial. Whenever anything new comes into the prosecutor’s possession, it is forwarded to defense counsel. Perry Mason moments are no longer allowed (drat it all!)
It might be that the grand jury is getting everything fresh so that when they no bill him, they will have plenty of evidence to back up their decision.
Prosecutor to grand jury. Come on guys, help me out here. Get creative. Surely you can find something. And besides, Holder told me if I can’t come up with charges, my a$$ is canned.
"How can we railroad this white pig" is what they're thinking.
This should never go to trial.
I presume the grand jury has seen the broken eye socket photo of the officer. A closed fist can be a lethal weapon.
Referring to the deceased as Mike-Mike, the unarmed teen, shows a predisposition to support an agenda rather than any effort to learn or report the truth.
Assuming that the reports of the cop having suffered serious injuries in the encounter and the reports of the GG having had a serious juvenile record are true will evidence of these facts be presented to the Grand Jury? Or will Attorney Corporal Holder’s people “suggest” that it not be handed over?
It did matter, buy you pissed it away with your lifestyle homeboy. But then again you did say IDGAF.
If that’s why he stopped them the second time, then yes.
TRANSLATION: They got nothin’ but they have to come up with something and they’re hoping a juror can make something up they can use.
Yeah I sure hope they also get to see evidence that is “against” the Thug That robbed the convenience store.
Thanks blu.
The grand jury was already seated. They can’t help to have heard at least some of the news reports and eyewitness accounts. Let’s see if the witnesses tell the exact same stories when they’re under oath.
Yes. I think I've got it.
Holder and the Feds were meddling in all kinds of decisions about what to present and what to hold back.
A point came at which the locals got sick of it and just said "hey, you know what? let's just present everything, and let the grand jury sort it out."
At which point the feds backed away. What could they say?
“I presume the grand jury has seen the broken eye socket photo of the officer. A closed fist can be a lethal weapon.”
The DA determines what evidence will and will not be presented. The person being investigated (officer Wilson) does not present any evidence.
This Tee could just as easily be a picture of Officer Wilson and read, “I am Officer Wilson and MY life matters”. Michael Brown forced a situation that had to be addressed by a legally appointed officer of the law. Why give the police a gun if they cannot use it even in self defense? Officer Wilson, in performance of his duty to uphold the law now has a target on his back that will prevent him from living a normal life for years to come. And the public is being told that we must care more about Michael Brown’s life than he himself did. The state of Missouri voters need to hold their pro PC democrat governor Nixon accountable for prejudicing any case against Officer Wilson and a fair trial by early on calling for a swift prosecution. Which clearly meant of Officer Wilson, the law breaking Brown having become deceased.
Obviously that store owners life didn’t matter.
Demon rats
I'll betcha there's a lot of "quashing" of evidence going on.
ALL in the thug's favor, of course.
That's not due process, but what does that mean in Obamerica?
Lynching was a very very bad thing in the 1940s. So bad that Truman had to order laws against it.
In 2014, we have to make SURE there's a lynching. As long as the Whitey gets lynched.
The decision might rest on when they believe it better to have more rioting: now (after the Grand Jury does not indict) or later (when the evidence clearly exonerates the cop).
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