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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJay Nixon is a damned bonehead.
Just heard on MSNBC - he won't tell the county prosecutor to recuse himself. What a clueless idiot.
Statement liberated from grrr Politico:
There is a well-established process by which a prosecutor can recuse themselves from a pending investigation, and a special prosecutor be appointed, Nixon continued. Departing from this established process could unnecessarily inject legal uncertainty into this matter and potentially jeopardize the prosecution.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)The St. Louis County DA is acting as counsel for the defense, while the Ferguson PD and St. Louis County PD act as a PR agency for Wilson.
The whole process is a joke, and will end with "There wasn't enough evidence to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt."
Oh, there will be a party by our resident racists, make no mistake. They'll squeal and dance.
gvstn
(2,805 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)We will be seeing TV images the likes of which we haven't seen since the sixties. I'm sure of it.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)We already know this since all the local authorities have been leaking and building that narrative all week in an attempt to color the grand jury proceedings, even having police "sources" leak completely uncorroborated information about a "dozen" witnesses to a reporter on FMLA leave from the St. Louis Dispatch in order to give her subsequent tweet to that effect an air of journalistic validity. (Kudos to the paper for making her retract...she should be shitcanned for being either a willing participant or a monumentally gullible dupe in a fraud on the good name if her employer). That's the lengths that the people supposed to be investigating this homicide are going to in order to clear the killer - their own colleague! - of charges.
There will be no indictment. Bank it.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)That in that case Ferguson will explode.
The past week will be just a warm-up. And there will be other protests, around the country.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)That is not going to happen now.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)for aiding in a white-wash. He lose over half the Dem votes.
pintobean
(18,101 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)Which is part of the problem.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)when O'Donnell suggested a special prosecutor should be appointed. When asked about the possibility of getting the governor to have Mcculloch to recuse himself she got testy, saying Lawrence O'Donnell couldn't be more wrong and singing McCulloch's praises. I didn't know that Claire McCaskill used to be a DA in Missouri herself She got especially flustered when Lawrence O'Donnell pointed out to her that the Grand Jury would only be meeting once a week and this could take a long time. She's a disappointment.
bullwinkle428
(20,630 posts)is going to be the main reason why this cop is going to walk away scot-free.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)You just saw Claire McCaskill do a very embarrassing dance on that little tightrope.
McCulloch's been souring the investigation with leaks and nonsense from GIT, and since he obviously won't rein in the insanity of victim-blaming leaks coming out of Ferguson PD and St. Louis County PD, one can only conclude that he approves of them.
This is Old Boy's Network writ large, where Old Boy of course means "White Supremacist Power Structure in Missouri," and it apparently inlcudes Claire McCaskill and Jay Nixon - people clearly too stupid to understand that the black vote is the only reason they're in office.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)regarding his innocence behind closed doors. That's unusual, as the Gcrand Jury proceeding is where the prosecutor only presents inculpatory evidence to show enough probable cause of guilt to indict and move the case along to trial.
kath
(10,565 posts)Holy shit.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)It's been reported by NBC News directly from McCulloch's mouth.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting/grand-jury-hear-michael-brown-evidence-wednesday-n184486
"...Grand juries are secret, and potential defendants usually don't appear. But Ed Magee, a spokesman for St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch, told NBC News that Wilson would be given an opportunity to testify. ..."
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I am unimpressed by him.