damn those people who serve on grand juries and trial juries. Just stoopid ignorunt tools. We should do away with the grand jury and trial by jury systems because so few of us are qualified to make all decisions on these matters, members of the general public should never be allowed to do it.Well, this ought to go well for Lady Justice. From the linked article:
"The criminal charges were the first Brandenburg has brought against officers in a shooting, something for which she has come under scrutiny. She filed the counts via criminal information, which allows her to charge the officers without presenting evidence to a grand jury.
She has been criticized for her office's controversial, decades-old practice of using grand juries to affirm prosecutors' decisions that no probable cause existed to charge officers in shootings. Most district attorneys in New Mexico and around the country resolve police shooting cases with an internal investigation.
Under a revamped system, county prosecutors decide whether there's probable cause that a crime was committed.
Brandenburg said in a statement that the date for a preliminary hearing for the two has not yet been set."
So while the prosecutor in the Darren Wilson case took the unusual step (for his office) of turning to the GJ for exactly the same reason that this case's prosecutor has done for decades, that is, to affirm her decades-long practice of refusing to find probable cause against cops, now this prosecutor will have to stack the deck the old fashioned way - by weighting the jury selection process with people either ambivalent to, or actually supportive of and/or sympathetic to cops, and arguing the weakest case possible to get the cops off just like the prosecutor did in the Kelly Thomas case.
My prediction: These cops will never be held accountable for anything more serious than excessive use of force, if the prosecutor even includes that as a charge, which if she doesn't, these two will walk.
And even if that prediction doesn't come to fruition and they are convicted of manslaughter or higher, their sentences will be so exceedingly short when compared to "regular" citizens involved in killing someone equally unjustifiably, just like Johannes Mehserle got only a two year sentence for killing Oscar Grant in cold blood, and only served a little less than one.
Oh, and it only took this prosecutor 10 freakin' months to come to the conclusion that there was enough probable cause to bring a charge. The same probable cause that existed upon her first viewing of the video is what she filed charges with 10 months later. Any red flags raised by that long of a delay for anybody?
Blues
damn those people who serve on grand juries and trial juries. Just stoopid ignorunt tools. We should do away with the grand jury and trial by jury systems because so few of us are qualified to make all decisions on these matters, members of the general public should never be allowed to do it.
Is this a new ruling? The wheels of justice turning slowly?
Judge Rules 2 Police Officers To Be Tried For Murder Of Homeless Man : The Two-Way : NPR
damn those people who serve on grand juries and trial juries. Just stoopid ignorunt tools. We should do away with the grand jury and trial by jury systems because so few of us are qualified to make all decisions on these matters, members of the general public should never be allowed to do it.
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