Posted on 08/19/2014 7:56:25 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
Secondly, should a special prosecutor be appointed by the governor of Missouri to look into the shooting of Michael Brown?:
If the Missouri prosecutor (who might be the head of the investigation probing the shooting of Michael Brown) has a mother, father, brother, uncle and cousin who all worked for the St. Louis police department (Ferguson, Missouri is a suburb of St. Louis, Mo.) - his father was reported to have been killed and the suspect was a black individual - should he be replaced by a special prosecutor appointed by the governor of Missouri (Jay Nixon)?
Third, where is the shell casing for the bullet that was told to have been discharged in the struggle for Darren Wilson's gun? Was gun powder residue on Michael Brown's clothing? Is "Josie's" account on the Dana Loesch radio show hearsay?
Fourth, are Michael Brown's hand prints on the gun?
Fifth, is there a bullet hole in officer Darren Wilson's car if there was indeed a struggle for officer Darren Wilson's gun and a bullet was discharged?
Sixth, how many bullet casings were recovered?
Seventh, should the police (across the country) take the same stance if the situation is reversed and release info that may or may not look like it exonerates a suspect, or should they take the position that they will take the same stance with unsub perps (and police officers) and never release information piece meal for either side?
Polygraph results are inadmissable in court. The eye witness with Brown, should be busted in connection with the strong armed robbery of the cigars.
Polygraphs are just a tool for intimidation not a real scientific inquiry. (see police are allowed to lie during interrogations)
Mentioning a polygraph during a trial is grounds for a mistrial. Parks and Crump have made multiple appearances on CNN FNC and MSNC fanning the race card flames and attempting to influence the potential jury. Crump was on the Kelly file saying the autopsy he ordered was ambiguous enough to PRESUME GUILT and demanded an arrest.
Remember these lawyers are ambulance chasers who settle cases not try them. They are license in FL not MO. I do not wish to give their website the hits.
You’re asking a lot of questions that nobody here is going to be in a position to answer.
How can one label it a "felony" murder when the theft had not yet taken place? Does the robber have to have the property in hand in order for it to be valued to see if it meets the felony threshold? Does it matter if he had grabbed a $100 watch vs. a $1,000 necklace?
-PJ
It has been reported that a police report said that Wilson was responding to a police dispatch of a suspect in a robbery.
But later in the day, it has been reported that police chief Jackson said that Wilson did not know that the teen was a suspect in the robbery.
A polygraph would most likely not be conclusive. For one thing, polygraphs are pretty unreliable and relatively easy to beat. More importantly, though, the most that a polygraph shows is that a person is intentionally lying. If an eyewitness genuinely believes that he saw what he says he saw, then a polygraph will prove nothing, even if the witness’s recollection is wrong (as it often is).
So why should there be a special prosecutor?
Lie detectors are not admissible in court, and I imagine no witness would agree to take one and I doubt it could be compelled.
They are supposed to tell the story as they believe it truthfully to be, and then it is for the jury (or judge) to decide if they are truthful.
I posted so people would not get caught up in useless exercises.
The accomplice had the cigars, and confessed.
no they are pretty much uniformly inadmissible. They are easy to manipulate, easy to create a false reliance.
The older tests could be manipulated with a simple thumbtack between the toes. It is akin to the false memory creation of psych interviewers.
That doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t be asked, as the media is sure going to keep asking questions - be it the GOP-e leaning media or the Dem-e leaning media (neither of which I care for).
To answer your question of how it can be labeled a felony before the theft, you have to know what felony the prosecutors charged under, then look at any case law that says when that felony has occurred. If the felony was "entering a store with intent to rob", or "conspiracy" or something like that, it may have begun the minute they entered the store, or before they entered.
I don’t agree with what Crumps said on the Kelly file, if what you post is true. Don’t agree with him at all - if true. A link to his comments would be great, btw.
But... I am not going to broad-brush strike “these” lawyers, either, and say that they are ambulance chasers.
Don’t give the website any hits. Just post the info and quote what they have said. That would suffice as proof to bolster what you say, right?
I believe this has been explained a couple days ago. Wilson heard a dispatch about a theft, but did not know that Brown was a suspect when he told him to get out of the street. There was someone saying that he saw the cigars in Brown's hand and realized that he may have been the guy mentioned in the dispatch. We will find out at some point when the investigation is complete.
Because perhaps then it would go a long way to removing any potential hints of doubt as to who is prosecuting this and thus minimize reports by the MSM concerning this.
Why not?
It’s constitutional, as we both want, and the governor of Missouri might be the one to give an out-of-the-forest perspective on this with an appointment of a special prosecutor.
actually the ONLY reason to ask anyone for a polygraph is to manipulate a specific result. NOBODY should consent to such bogus science. It is no different than Phrenology.
And Josie’s comments on the Dana Show are inadmissible in court, too.
The prosecutor should have gag-ordered this from the get-go.
-PJ
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