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National Bar Association Lawyers Release Statement Indicating Ferguson Prosecutor Corruption
Countercurrent News ^ | November 28, 2014 2:01 pm

Posted on 11/28/2014 10:13:10 AM PST by holden

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“It looks like he wanted to create the appearance that there had been a public trial when in fact there hadn’t been,” said Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman.
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"McCulloch gave Wilson’s case special treatment. He turned it over to the grand jury, a rarity itself, and then used the investigation as a document dump, an approach that is virtually without precedent in the law of Missouri or anywhere else. Buried underneath every scrap of evidence McCulloch could find, the grand jury threw up its hands and said that a crime could not be proved. This is the opposite of the customary ham-sandwich approach, in which the jurors are explicitly steered to the prosecutor’s preferred conclusion."

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To: EBH
Just imagine a lengthy jury trial covered daily by the MSM. Brown's lawyers would be stoking the fires in much the same way that Johnny Cochran did. It would be a 24/7 circus for cable news.

The grand jury trial killed the momentum. Now it will be on to the next crisis unless there is a civil trial.

61 posted on 11/28/2014 11:50:29 AM PST by kabar
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To: holden

Not a whole lotta brainpower goin’ on in that group, eh?

Oh well, the Holderidiot and Obamadotk have law degrees, so we’re not talkin’ STEM standards in the profession.

And always remember that the majority of the nation’s least respected profession are lawyers.


62 posted on 11/28/2014 12:00:06 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: BwanaNdege

Dems some choppers.


63 posted on 11/28/2014 12:00:10 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Ghost of SVR4

They are a thousand times more rush-to-judgement than the average 1870’s lynch mob.


64 posted on 11/28/2014 12:07:49 PM PST by samtheman
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To: holden

they can’t argue on the evidence, so try to smear the prosecutor they must


65 posted on 11/28/2014 12:15:53 PM PST by Wuli
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To: Lazamataz
If God descended from the Heavens and proclaimed Wilson innocent, these a-holes would smear and indict God.

They already do that.

66 posted on 11/28/2014 12:31:46 PM PST by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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To: kabar

Instead they are stoking the secret racism of the procedure.


67 posted on 11/28/2014 1:52:40 PM PST by EBH (And the angel poured out his cup...)
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To: EBH

That will be harder to maintain. The public likes to follow a trial, but the arcane dispute over procedure has a short half-life. Sharpton and Company need something else to keep up the momentum. You can only astroturf so many demonstrations.


68 posted on 11/28/2014 1:56:53 PM PST by kabar
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To: hanamizu
US Constitution, Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury

HF

69 posted on 11/28/2014 2:45:09 PM PST by holden
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To: holden

Consistent with their usual stand of supporting murderers of police officers.


70 posted on 11/28/2014 2:49:31 PM PST by writmeister
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To: bgill

Looks like Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho got a sex change.


71 posted on 11/28/2014 2:56:01 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: C210N

Ah, yes, you are correct. I believe that is the liberals favorite judge Roland Friesler.


72 posted on 11/28/2014 3:02:31 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: holden
This is the opposite of the customary ham-sandwich approach, in which the jurors are explicitly steered to the prosecutor’s preferred conclusion."

...and that is justice? I think not.

73 posted on 11/28/2014 3:12:39 PM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the Republican Party does not want you.)
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To: MUDDOG

74 posted on 11/28/2014 3:23:10 PM PST by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: Brother Cracker

I reached for my wallet, and shook hands with the Kingfish.


75 posted on 11/28/2014 3:34:42 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: MUDDOG

“The National Bar Association makes Algonquin J. Calhoun look like a distinguished jurist.”

Worth repeating.


76 posted on 11/28/2014 3:37:47 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: holden

Seems pretty clear-cut, but it has never been incorporated to cover the states. A quick google search says that half of the states don’t use them at all. So, they’re required on the Federal level, but not on the state level. It might be similar to the requirement that jury trials are required in civil cases involving more than $20—Amendment VII


77 posted on 11/28/2014 5:29:47 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: holden

But not a word about the corruption of the lawyer in the White House.....


78 posted on 11/28/2014 9:00:20 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Maelstorm
I do wish that the prosecutor would go after those who told boldfaced lies to the grand jury in an attempt to wrongly indict this officer because they are representative of the disease in the ghetto black community that is going to keep encouraging poor young black men to their deaths and prison through their irrational hatred of the police and affinity for committing crime.

I absolutely agree he should go after them. He should also hold a news conference and explain to the people how the Main Stream Media, along with the usual suspects, lied and fueled the unrest and subsequent riots!

79 posted on 11/29/2014 4:55:07 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Bushbacker1
I think Dorian Johnson's testimony had an element of truth, but he just left some relevant details out. Michael Brown did have his hands above his head...one at a time, in fist-pumping fashion, as he charged, head down toward Officer Wilson.

HF

80 posted on 11/29/2014 8:35:36 AM PST by holden
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