the article version of what i posted earlier. oh my god --- Before Wilson testified to the grand jury on September 16, prosecutors gave grand jurors an outdated statute that said police officers can shoot a suspect thats simply fleeing. This statute was deemed unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court in 1985; the court ruled that a fleeing suspect must, at least in a police officers reasonable view, pose a dangerous threat to someone or have committed a violent felony to justify a shooting. Prosecutors, who had full control of the evidence presented to the grand jury, took more than two months to correct their mistake, ODonnell said. The prosecutors on November 21 — just three days before the grand jury reached a decision — gave the correct standards to the grand jury. But as ODonnell explained, the prosecutors didnt specify what exactly was wrong with the outdated statute — and they didnt even clearly say, after they were asked, to the grand jurors that Supreme Court rulings do indeed override Missouri law.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 05:10:32 +0000
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