The Ferguson prosecutor has made a mockery of the Grand Jury process. He has corrupted the legal process and justice has been denied, not only to those in Ferguson, but to every American.
The prosecutor should be held accountable and disbarred in my opinion.
Unfortunately I am in a very small minority who appreciate that what actually happened was a travesty of "justice" so I very much doubt that the Ferguson prosecutor will even receive as much as a reprimand.
So he is corrupt for doing nothing but dumping ALL the evidence out and letting them decide?
Most times a prosecutor only shows some of it...and twists words to ensure he gets an indictment.
IMO... his should be a model for how ALL gjs are done. Just the evidence. All of it. Nothing else.
The Ferguson prosecutor violated 200+ years of established jurisprudence per the words of Justice Scalia.
Justice Scalia Explains What Was Wrong With The Ferguson Grand Jury
Justice Antonin Scalia, in the 1992 Supreme Court case of
United States v. Williams, explained what the role of a grand jury has been for hundreds of years.
It is the grand jury’s function not ‘to enquire … upon what foundation [the charge may be] denied,’ or otherwise to try the suspect’s defenses, but only to examine ‘upon what foundation [the charge] is made’ by the prosecutor. Respublica v. Shaffer, 1 Dall. 236 (O. T. Phila. 1788); see also F. Wharton, Criminal Pleading and Practice § 360, pp. 248-249 (8th ed. 1880). As a consequence,
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.
Allowing Wilson to testify and presenting exculpatory evidence was a corruption of the justice system.
