As I said earlier (Im not one of the legal experts though!)---> ...Still, legal experts agree that, at any level, it is extremely rare for prosecutors to fail to win an indictment. “If the prosecutor wants an indictment and doesn’t get one, something has gone horribly wrong,” said Andrew D. Leipold, a University of Illinois law professor who has written critically about grand juries. “It just doesn’t happen.” ... There are at least three possible explanations as to why grand juries are so much less likely to indict police officers.... The second is prosecutorial bias: Perhaps prosecutors, who depend on police as they work on criminal cases, tend to present a less compelling case against officers, whether consciously or unconsciously. The third possible explanation is more benign. Ordinarily, prosecutors only bring a case if they think they can get an indictment. But in high-profile cases such as police shootings, they may feel public pressure to bring charges even if they think they have a weak case.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 04:26:13 +0000
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