They could always bring in Janet Reno to burn them alive in their cells. Then have Sandy Burglar steal the evidence while Boner cries, and the Turtle hides in his shell.
lowering expectations. they know they’re in trouble
... it would be the proper result of a time-tested process that properly insists that when we deprive people of liberty or life through sentencing ...Ummm, deprivation of liberty can be obtained on probable cause. The author also overlooks the fact that none of the accused were detained on an accusation of commision of violence. All were detained on an accusation to conspire.
Especially when so many are lying and cya. I'm guessing the GJ won't be shown the video of a cop planting evidence under vehicles.
“Under this statute, too, the prosecution would have to show either causation or conspiracy in relation to each defendant. Simple presence is not enough.”
According to some on this forum, just being there is enough in their opinion to hang them.
Criminal law is all about managing tragedy — and to do that well takes careful deliberation.
"Criminal law" in this case (and who knows how many others) is all about fomenting and increasing tragedy using the stalling method of "careful deliberation."
If this man seriously believes there is even the slightest possibility that all 177 folks arrested, let alone 117 so-called "members of criminal street gangs" who had managed to live their lives without ever once being arrested or charged with any kind of crime (at least, in Texas, and all but one were Texas residents) are guilty of conspiring to commit murder, assault, or any other crime even if it was to steal a pack of chewing gum!!! -- then this man belongs in an asylum for the seriously deluded insane.
Instead, he's a teacher. Of lawyers.
Thus, for the types of crimes many might expect will be charged in the Twin Peaks cases, prosecutors must prove that a specific individual defendant caused a death or that a defendant agreed with others to commit a defined crime. The circumstances of these cases make either one of these difficult. To show that an individual caused a death will in many cases require that the prosecutor connect the actions of one specific shooter with the death of an identified victim or victims; they must show a direct line of causation from a killer to a victim. It is the size, suddenness and scale of the outburst of violence at Twin Peaks that makes this difficult (though not necessarily impossible).
This is so much B.S. The prosecutors will indict who they want on whatever charges they want.
As “they” say. “You can indict a ham sandwich”. Or something like that.....
Yet, after indictments are handed out the usual suspects will show up on the thread and say “I told you so! They’re all guilty!”