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This was coming from attorney Crump who NEEDED an indictment to sustain a civil suit. A civil suit and probable cause have fairly close standards of proof.

Without the probable cause finding the civil suit circus is over before it started. This means CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC’s jobs are at an end here. This means no more brown family t-shirt sales.

This means no money for shaprton’s brawley II media frenzy.

“some say” is just code for reporters left wing mind view.

The PHYSICAL evidence suggests that of a thug who could not control himself and assaulted a uniformed police officer.

A civil suit and probable cause have fairly close standards of proof.

Criminal trial: "beyond a reasonable doubt."

Civil suit: "preponderance of the evidence."

At least, that's what I recall from the OJ civil case brought by the parents of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman. True in California, at any rate.

They can still file a civil suit. The bigger hurdle they have to face is that they need to demonstrate some kind of loss that can be measured in dollars and cents. The most obvious financial loss in the case of a person who dies before the age of 20 is a loss of income over the course of a lifetime, but the family would have a hard time demonstrating that this Brown dude would have earned even so much as a nickel in an honest job. There might also be a limitation on how much can be collected by the family on these terms at all, since Brown was not a minor and appears to have no dependents.

The loss of affection is the next obvious one in cases like this, and the damages there can be substantial. But there would also be a discovery process and a lot of legal wrangling over just how much "affection" was involved here ... and the defense would have an army of experts ready to demonstrate that Brown's family really didn't give a sh!t about him at all.

In other words, the only leverage the Brown family has over any other parties in this case is the likelihood of a long, expensive trial.