CountryClassSF
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« on: November 30, 2014, 06:00:36 PM » |
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Normally, an open-shut self defense case like this wouldn't make a grand jury. It's true that grand juries indict "ham sandwiches", but that is because 999 times out of 1,000, a DA is not going to bring a case to a grand jury unless he is actively seeking an indictment AND he believes that he can meet a reasonable doubt standard with a petit jury.
Many on the left are ill-informed in this regard. The DA in STL County, McColluch, a Democrat by the way, should be lauded for his transparency and unprecedented lengths he went to to ensure the grand jury had access to all of the facts.
Note that McColluch could have unilaterally decided that he was not going to take the case to a grand jury, and refuse to file an information. He chose instead to present the case to a grand jury that was already beginning its service. They had a choice of multiple charges from Murder-1 all the way down to involuntary manslaughter. They returned a no bill on all of them.
Yet, its interesting that McColluch is essentially being attacked for providing the grand jury with all of the facts and letting them decide. They would have rather he had not done that so that the grand jury *would* indict? Sorry, but if this case cannot meet a probable cause standard, it certainly can't meet a reasonable doubt standard in a court of law.
Many on the left would typically support this kind of transparency on the part of prosecutors, but it appears some TV commentators are grossly uninformed.
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