L.A. Officer to Be Retried in Videotaped Arrest Case

Reuters ^ | July 30 | Gina Keating

[mdittmar]

Prosecutors said on Wednesday they will retry a white former Inglewood police officer accused of slamming a black teenager onto a squad car during a videotaped arrest last summer, saying the case must be resolved for the community's sake.

A jury deadlocked over the single felony charge of assault under color of authority against former officer Jeremy Morse on Tuesday, and the judge declared a mistrial.

[mdittmar]

They'll get him,next stop,civil rights trial.

Cops need more sensativity traing.

[livius]

Yeah, try him until they get a conviction, right? I'm totally disgusted by this.

[mdittmar]

sensativity traing=sensitivity training,sorry,I was self teached.

[mdittmar]

Sad how they drop it when a dirtball gets a hung jury,"too much money to retry" etc.,but when a cop is involved it's prosecute to the hilt,for the community don't ya know.

[Lazamataz]

Yeah, try him until they get a conviction, right? I'm totally disgusted by this.

No, it's a deadlocked jury. An acquittal or a finding of not guilty would be a different thing. I'm not opposed to retrying cases that deadlock.

[Lazamataz]

Sad how they drop it when a dirtball gets a hung jury,"too much money to retry" etc.,but when a cop is involved it's prosecute to the hilt,for the community don't ya know.

It's not just a cop, it's that this is being closely observed by the street. If there's a hard and fast Not Guilty, I say screw the street. However, I don't see how they cannot retry a deadlock in this case.

[Bubba_Leroy]

They'll keep trying him until they get a conviction. If a jury finds him not guilty then the feds will try him.

Politically, acquittal is not an option. Guilt or innocence are irrelevant.

[Drew68]

Sad how they drop it when a dirtball gets a hung jury,"too much money to retry" etc.,but when a cop is involved it's prosecute to the hilt,for the community don't ya know.

It's cheaper to keep trying the cop until they get a conviction than it would be to rebuild Inglewood after the residents burn it down following an acquittal.

[Freedom4US]

Have any of those geniuses pondered what happens when none of our good citizens - black or white, whatever - decline to
become law enforcement officers?

[goldstategop]

Yep. They need their pound of flesh to propitiate the NAACLP.

[mdittmar]

Prosecutor: No retrial for death penalty in Dublin officer slaying

But jurors were deadlocked for days on whether the man should be put to death for the killing or face a life term in prison without the possibility of parole. Delucchi was forced to declare a mistrial in early March.

Not worth the time,just another dead cop.

[88keys]

It's not just a cop, it's that this is being closely observed by the street. If there's a hard and fast Not Guilty, I say screw the street. However, I don't see how they cannot retry a deadlock in this case.

Seems the problem is, there's not a hard and fast guilty, either...

We've all seen the "video-tape", ad nauseum...but...what the tape doesn't show/tell is absolutely crucial either way...

I say "screw" (that would be a quote!) everything that's not a provable fact...

[Khurkris]

Sorry...They said the MIGHT TRY to re-try the defendant.

[joesnuffy]

Belazabubb intervened to get Keach and the other cops prison time

Keach was a decorated cop who at one time saved some black crack heads life
by giving him CPR & mouth to mouth while a bunch of other cops sat back to let the perp
expire because no one had any plastic shields used to protect the medic from actually coming in contact with the victim

Keach was probably the last guy on the LAPD who was a racist...but they made sure the charge stuck ...that was Clinton's doing ...his bone to the NAACP and Jesse the Jet..
and I suspect to the insurance companies

When white cops go free whether they are guilty or not....the town gets burned ..saves a whole lotta money to put cops behind bars and fire them and ruin their lives if the sacrafice stops a riot..

[mdittmar]

Huh,what?

splain yourself.

[hole_n_one]

Sorry...They said the MIGHT TRY to re-try the defendant.

Which part of Prosecutors said on Wednesday they will retry..... don't you understand?

[Old Professer]

Somewhere back around 1982 in Simi Valley, Ca. my fence between my house and the house south of me blew down in one of the famous Santa Ana winds.

The next day, my neighbor behind me was outside and we began to talk about how we were going to put the fence back up and were also introducing ourselves since we hadn't formallly met.

I was quite surprised to find out that he was an F.B.I. agent in the bank fraud division in L.A.; as things sometime go, we began to talk and the conversation turned to the "urban" side of town.

While I was still trying to get over talking to an Asian man living in California with a decided Oklahoma accent, we were trading suggestions on how best to deal with the members of society on the fringes who seemed to have a penchant for annihilating themselves: I suggested throwing guns and ammunition in and waiting until the smoke cleared and then cleaning up the mess; he said, "Just throw in the ammo, they have the guns."

The threat remains to this day, this cop must go down or the town will.

[Khurkris]

my bad. trying to multi-task and made a mistake. my apologies.