The Day Ferguson Cops Were Caught in a Bloody Lie

a trial without the safeguards...and without the chance for the other side to question what is being presented. The Grand Jury does not have the necessary rules of evidence...or the cross examination feature necessary to the kind of decision you are asking about.

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And you do not know what the jury thought...because the case was never brought before a jury

Au contraire mon ami, it was a jury and it was exculpatory evidence!

There were about 60 witnesses called during almost 75 hours of proceedings, resulting in almost 5,000 pages of transcript. Most grand juries see only one witness per case: the arresting officer. As a result of the number of witnesses the grand jury took far longer to reach its decision than do most grand juries.



The subject of the grand jury proceeding, Darren Wilson, presented four hours of testimony at the outset of the Grand Jury proceeding.[8] Mr. Wilson was not rigorously cross-examined, while other witnesses were subject to extensive and aggressive cross-examination.



An Assistant District Attorney gave inaccurate and misleading instructions to the Grand Jury at the beginning of the proceeding regarding controlling law on whether officers can kill a fleeing suspect without considering the officer’s fear of life. She cited a Missouri statute that had been overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1985.[9] She corrected the record weeks after citing the wrong statute and long after Officer Wilson had testified.



The prosecutors did not suggest which charges the grand jury should consider, instead leaving it to the grand jurors to decide.



The grand jury’s no true bill decision was announced late in the evening after several public announcements that a decision was imminent.



The transcripts of the grand jury were released to the public immediately after the no true bill was announced. By contrast, grand jury proceedings are sealed in most states and their secrecy is protected by non-disclosure laws that usually involve criminal penalties for disclosure. In Missouri, for instance, § 540.320 of the Missouri Statutes states that “No grand juror shall disclose any evidence given before the grand jury” and provides that “any juror violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a class A misdemeanor.” It is extremely rare for grand jury transcripts to be publicly available.

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a trial without the safeguards...and without the chance for the other side to question what is being presented. The Grand Jury does not have the necessary rules of evidence...or the cross examination feature necessary to the kind of decision you are asking about.

Wrong again..."Grand jurors can in some jurisdictions direct questions at a witness. In the Michael Brown shooting death, some grand jurors directed questions to Darren Wilson during his four-hour testimon
http://www.law.columbia.edu/media_inquiries/news_events/2014/november2014/Facts-on-Ferguson-Grand-Jury

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@oralloy,
Still ******* little boys? Your parole officer says you are.

You got class Boob.

No.... Killing unarmed people is not ok.

tony5732 wrote:

No.... Killing unarmed people is not ok.

If an unarmed person is in the process of beating you to death with their bare hands, you have the right to fire on them in self defense.

But to suggest that every confrontation that involves a physical element constitutes "the process of beating you to death with their bare hands" could make for a very, very, very messy society, Oralloy.

Frank Apisa wrote:

But to suggest that every confrontation that involves a physical element constitutes "the process of beating you to death with their bare hands" could make for a very, very, very messy society, Oralloy.

I imagine someone has developed some sort of legal standard for determining what constitutes enough of a threat. I'm not sure what it is though.

By the way, earlier (I have no idea what thread) we were talking about body cameras for police officers. I had said that I thought audio would also be beneficial, but that I believed they did not record audio at the present. You agreed that audio recordings would be helpful.

I've since seen a news report indicating that such body cameras do also record audio.

HEY, SHARPTON: Muslims Slaughter 1000s Of Blacks In Nigeria, Where’s Your Outrage?

they all claim God is on their side.