"Imagine what these witnesses would look and sound like being cross-examined by a defense attorney."
Posted on 11/24/2014 11:22:49 PM PST by walford
I actually watched the initial statement and question-and-answer session with the press from beginning to end -- and what is actually "bizarre" is HuffPo writer Alana Horowitz' distorted caricature of an editorial being posited as a news account.
Prosecutor McCulloch first explained the investigation/deliberation process and noted that evidence was the basis of the ultimate decision that the Grand Jury took. It was necessary, IMO for him to address the agendized speculation from those who were not there and a media that was hungry for a story.
McCulloch then summarized the evidence in detail, comparing the physical evidence with the various witness accounts, explaining that there were occasions when they did not match -- adding that several witnesses later admitted that they had not actually witnessed the incident and instead went by assumptions and what they were told by others.
He also added that his job is to seek justice, not prosecute people in order to satisfy some political agenda. Also, no prosecutor is going to want to threaten his reputation by trying a case that he knows is all-but-guaranteed to fail. Imagine what these witnesses would look and sound like being cross-examined by a defense attorney.
The questions McCulloch got from some reporters were very curious: Given that he had such a [horrid] reputation of favoring the police...How can he justify officers killing teens with impunity....What would he say to Michael Brown's family who would consider this finding to be an injustice...?
That struck me as bizarre, not the Prosecutor's statements and answers.
McCulloch did not mention that there were also politicians, race-hustlers and journalists who were politically and economically invested in sowing racial discord -- such as, apparently, the author of this story. He certainly was not given credit for the fact that it would have been easier for him and his office to appease the racially inflamed mob and throw Officer Darren Wilson to the wolves.
Let us remember that racially motivated attacks upon innocents ensued subsequent to Rev. Al Sharpton's confirmed hoaxes [Crystal Mangum, Tawana Brawley] and the fraudulently racialized incidents [Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown]. He and the other vultures who are responsible these atrocities have never acknowledged, must less apologized for the pregnant women, the elderly, the disabled -- and even children being savaged for being the wrong color in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I fear that this violence will escalate in the aftermath of this latest farce and "reporters" like Alana Horowitz will have blood on their hands -- and yet to literally add insult to injury, they will consider themselves righteous in doing so.
"Imagine what these witnesses would look and sound like being cross-examined by a defense attorney."
The press and race-baiters gloss over the fact that the Prosecutor did not have to convene a Grand Jury at all. But he did and his statement was illuminating and should have satisfied anyone actually interested in evidence and true justice. For that I commend him.
A RAT is a RAT is a RAT and I never commend communists. Officer Darren Wilson is a good guy and a Christian. That RAT prosecutor is evil for dragging Wilson through all this nonsense.
I dunno how else to proceed than grand jury. Remember if Florida vs George Zimmermann had grand jury they’d had find out right away they had no case.
The way I see it is that Officer Wilson was just performing his job, ably and admirably. There was not a scintilla of wrongdoing and thus it was unjust to present it to a Grand Jury at all. There simply was no case and the ‘RAT McCullouch is the guilty party. Wilson’s good name is irrevocably tarnished because of ‘RAT misdeeds.
It seems that the prosecutor played fair. He didn’t try to turn Wilson into a ham sandwich.
... the Prosecutor did not have to convene a Grand Jury at all. But he did and his statement was illuminating and should have satisfied anyone actually interested in evidence and true justice. For that I commend him.
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Fully agree! The Prosecuter whould have been villified as a racist if he had just refused to bring charges. His father was a police officer who was killed by a black.
He sent the case to a Grand Jury and did not present anything to the GJ himself, while two assistants did and put forth FIVE possible charges that would be decided.
That was the best and most fair decision to eliminate claims of bias against the Prosecutor and permit a GJ of local citizens of various demographics to make the final decision.
“That was the best and most fair decision to eliminate claims of bias against the Prosecutor and permit a GJ of local citizens of various demographics to make the final decision.”
I am a staunch 2nd Amendment supporter, but personally do not like guns. I don’t like the noise, the odor the recoil or the expense — but am getting one ASAP.
Zimmerman. The Prosecution witnesses mostly supported the Defense.
Zimmerman. The Prosecution witnesses mostly supported the Defense.
You will notice that it didn’t take long for the media to eschew airing the actual witnesses — one of whom reportedly took part in the struggle with the officer — in favor of attorney spokesmen.
Early on, a few of them made it to the airwaves and anyone who has watched COPStv have seen this sort of witness before: “And den Michael Brown put his hans up and say ‘don’t shoot’ and the wite po-leece shot ‘im inna back.”
The media coverage was appallingly biased.
I dunno if you understand the purpose of grand jury.
A grand jury is a legal body that is empowered to conduct official proceedings to investigate potential criminal conduct and to determine whether criminal charges should be brought. A grand jury may compel the production of documents and may compel the sworn testimony of witnesses to appear before it.
Had Florida vs George Zimmerman did grand jury they'd not wasted effort to prosecute Zimmerman.
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