I will share something about the non-indictment of police officer Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown. I learned this from a very good friend, who happens to be a trial lawyer. What follows, however, are my words rather than those of my friend (except for that which is quoted from the record). Supreme Court Justice Scalia is probably the most conservative on the bench. So it is strange that conservatives seem to be celebrating the non-indictment in light of what Scalia wrote in the 1992 decision of United States v. Williams about the historical purpose of the grand jury: :..neither in this country nor in England has the suspect under investigation by the grand jury ever been thought to have a right to testify or to have exculpatory evidence presented. Yet the Ferguson DA McCulloch allowed Wilson to testify for hours with every kind of exculpatory evidence possible to be presented. The ONLY purpose for allowing this to happen would be to NOT HAVE AN INDICTMENT. The grand jury process was fixed. If Brown had been the one to shoot Wilson to death, this kind of process would not have taken place. The place for the exculpatory evidence, if there is any, is at trial. And the defense team is supposed to do that. But thanks to the DA, we wont have a public trial. The Ferguson DA did a far better job as Wilsons counsel than he did for the community as a prosecutor.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 06:59:47 +0000
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