For a conviction he's counting on a Durham jury behaving in the same manner as the Durham electorate. I can't believe, either, that there is no legal check on his behavior.
And that's the scariest part of all.
From what I have seen of the Durham electorate and what I have read about the crime there I imagine property values are not going to go up much in the near future.
If I lived on that street where the alleged attack occured I'd be very unhappy with the drive-by shootings and demonstrations. Those poor people.
Grand juries use to be the check on the prosecutor's power, but it's been many decades since that was the case. Indicting GJs do much more harm than good now because they have become the rubber stamp for the DA, which is exactly the opposite of their original purpose. A few states have done away with them altogether and many states, such as CA (and a lot of others), use them rarely.