Recall Alinsky: "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag"...
“Go, set a watchman, Let him declare what he sees.”
Isaiah 21:6
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 This specific portion refers to the distribution of legal documents that are no longer valid by Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Kathi Alizadeh.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.
What about the one or two witnesses who have since been murdered?
What “case”?
JMHO
what are the guide lines and such about double jeopardy type actions involving a Grand Jury ?I would think its a done deal an the brothers,not mine, need to deal with it
These people are acting like the mafia.
OH MY GOSH, he was a thug, ok?! He rushed the police officer after already wrestling for his gun, ok? GET OVER IT. STUPID.
Lots of Mafia out there in these PC days,Gay PC Mob,Black PC Mob,Envior PC Mob and the list goes on
FReepers in the legal know--please enlighten me. I thought Grand Jury proceedings (not the outcome) were secret. How can they go over the testimony with a fine comb and complain about it?
This sort of lawyerly angling might have some sway in a potential wrongful conviction but there are major problems in attempting to do so when there was no indictment let alone a trial.
Double jeopardy would not be an issue. Jeopardy doesn’t attach to grand jury proceedings—it doesn’t attach until a trial jury is empaneled—so a prosecutor is technically free to present the same case to as many grand juries as he likes until one returns an indictment.
There is no double jeopardy attached until the criminal trial begins.
...and neither will the thug lovers. Peas in a pod.
The prosecutor in this case publicly released all of the testimony and other evidence that was presented to the grand jury.
They won’t quit until the worst happens.
I would imagine McCulloch called witnesses he knew to be untruthful because if he didn’t, the question then would be, “why didn’t you call the people who said they saw him surrendering?”
All this crappola, Din Maker, and yet they call us racists. We are well and truly down the rabbit hole.
These a$$hats are pushing for another civil war. Bring it! I’d rather deal with it now than leave the fight to my children; just like with the madness that is islam.
So can G Jurys be convened one after another until the desired result by some is achieved?
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