Posted on 01/10/2015 7:58:55 AM PST by Din Maker
The NAACP’s legal group has sent a letter to a Missouri judge asking that a new grand jury convene to consider indicting former Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown back in August.
On November 24, a grand jury decided not to indict Wilson for killing Brown, and as a result, already riled protesters and activists took to the streets seeking justice. Now, in the almost two months since the decision was reached, the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund has penned an open letter to Missouri Judge Maura McShane asking that a new grand jury be put together and a special prosecutor be put in place to consider indicting Wilson. The letter also asks the judge to investigate the original prosecutor Bob McCulloch for misconduct.
In the letter, the group claims that a number of legal experts assembled by the NAACP worked together to examine the grand jury testimony and found that there were three areas in particular that were of concern to them.
The first area of concern, the letter claims, is that McCulloch “knowingly presented false witness testimony to the grand jury.” The letter cites an interview from last month in which the prosecutor admitted to allowing an eyewitness to testify even though she wasn’t actually at the scene of the shooting and actually had a history of “racially-charged rants about the incident on the Internet.”
The letter goes on to claim that McCulloch “presented incorrect and misleading statements of law to the grand jury and sanctioned unlawful juror practices.” This specific portion refers to the distribution of legal documents that are no longer valid by Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Kathi Alizadeh.
Additionally, the group claims in their letter that the prosecuting attorney and his team treated Officer Darren Wilson favorably. The letter claims that “the questioning of witnesses often appeared to advocate for defendant Wilson’s version of the shooting.”
“Our review of these proceedings has raised grave legal concerns, including knowing presentation of false witness testimony, erroneous instructions on the law, and preferential treatment of Mr. Wilson by the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office,” Sherrilyn Ifill, the group’s president, wrote in the letter.
The Los Angeles Times reports that McCulloch’s office has yet to comment on the letter from the Legal Defense Fund. Reports note that the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund shares a similar name with the NAACP but is actually a separate group.
The NAACP’s legal group has sent a letter to a Missouri judge asking that a new grand jury convene...
No double jeopardy since there was not a trial.
>> I thought Grand Jury proceedings (not the outcome) were secret.
They didn’t release the “proceedings” (i.e. deliberations of the jurors). Those are secret.
All they released was the evidence that was supplied to the grand jury — i.e. the facts upon which they deliberated. Apparently the evidence *isn’t* secret.
I wonder what will come first. The war against Jihad or the Racial War?
These boys better be careful. They may come to regret stirring up whitey. Better to keep your “outrage” dry until the next opportunity comes along.
IIRC, this is how Ronnie Earl finally got Tom Delay. He just kept on impaneling new GJs until one indicted. Despicable.
>> what will come first. The war against Jihad or the Racial War?
As many Obamasons as have converted to is(atan)lam, it might be one and the same war.
Are we supposed to get endless “do-overs” on this? Does not attempting to present the same “evidence” over and over, with no mitigating circumstances or additional information, constitute something called “double jeopardy”, EXPRESSLY violating the law?
The legally constituted grand jury has spoken, and could find NO instance of malfeasance on the part of Darren Wilson, in the performance of his duties as a police officer.
Now, today would be a great time to turn off all the lights at NAACP, Southern Poverty Law Center and other communist front organizations!
Whizzing into the wind will get one wet!
Yes
That’s how these folks work. They just wear people down . . . til they get their way. The gay gestapo has done it PERFECTLY. Now the anti-cop crew are going to keep going until they make what happened in Paris look tame.
Thus the saying "a prosecutor can get a ham sandwich incited."
“So can G Jurys be convened one after another until the desired result by some is achieved?”..
From what I read, it seems so. I would think there has got to be some way to stop that madness and bring this to an end. Guess that is not in their plans until the get Officer Wilson found guilty or dead.
There is no double jeopardy in Grand Jury proceedings. It can only attach once an actual trial jury is empaneled or a judge dismisses a case with prejudice, meaning it can’t be reopened. Neither happened in Wilson’s case.
The NAACP, like other evidence deniers, don’t care what the
fact are. This Prosecutor and other prosecutors can put on a case in whatever manner they choose. That’s the accepted practice.
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The Prosecutor told the public that several people who testified weren’t even there. Does anyone really think he didn’t tell Grand Jurors that too? If not, then that would leave him open to disbarment. I don’t think he would throw away his career, his reputation, and leave himself open to ridicule for Wilson or anyone else
Tom DeLay for Speaker!
What about the “hands up don’t shoot” false testimony of Brown’s accomplice?
enough already
your mommy already told you no..
I have a better idea. Lets retry the OJ Simpson murder case.
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