Lawyers for Ferguson seek any Michael Brown juvenile records

Associated Press ^ | Jun 18, 2016 11:10 AM EDT | Jim Suhr

[Olog-hai]

The city of Ferguson and other defendants in a wrongful-death lawsuit by Michael Brown’s parents are seeking access to any juvenile records of the black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by a white police officer in 2014 — a request once rejected by a judge after a newspaper and blog sought such documents.

The motion, filed this month, seeks St. Louis County family court records concerning outcomes of any Brown-related juvenile cases “or records of any alleged delinquent acts committed by or pertaining to” him. The motion argues that any such information “is reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence” in the lawsuit against the St. Louis suburb, former Police Chief Thomas Jackson and Ferguson officer Darren Wilson, who shot and killed the unarmed Brown during an August 2014 confrontation.

Brown’s parents “have no standing to assert any privilege with respect to the requested information,” and at the time of Brown’s death “the interest in safeguarding the confidentiality of any juvenile court records became less compelling,” according to the motion, scheduled for a hearing Thursday. The filing, first reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, claims a “legitimate interest” in the records without elaborating. …

[WENDLE]

What a joke. The court will throw the parent of this criminal thug out on their ear. He goes into a store— steals products. Beat up the manager. Goes out and grapples for an officer’s gun — And they want to sue the city? Madness.

[PROCON]

It's a reasonable request and one, that if disclosed, will show that these scumbag parents were not even custodial to the "gentle giant", it was the grandmother.

These scumbag "parents" are just looking for a big payday.

Other than that, it'll probably show that the beloved "gentle giant" had a long history of criminal activity.

Dindonuffin, my ars.

[Paladin2]

I doubt that this will improve the reputations of all of the other Grade C rappers out there...

[TYVets]

Why do they need all those records just to make Tee Shirts?

[Organic Panic]

Baby dindu nuffin. You gotta understand. he from duh hood. How he spose to get money fo clothes?

[bgill]

Now, now, Saint Michael never did a thing wrong.

[Gay State Conservative]

To grant that motion would be “racis”.Ferguson will have to defend herself knowing that that filthy 300 pound punk had a record but not being able to prove it.The family *will* get millions,as will their filthy lawyers.

[FreedomPoster]

The same information should have been released for Trayvon Martin just for the public’s compelling right to know his full background after his death, and the circus surrounding it aided and abetted by politically-driven prosecutors.