@TheChief Convenience store maybe. We certainly do not know about the gun. It is he said she said. We do know that robbing a convenience store usually does not carry the death penalty, especially if it is simply a case of shoplifting. But heres the thing you are missing. We don't know anything because there was no trial. Sometimes Grand Juries fail to indict because they believe there isn't a strong case for an indictment. In this case it was because the prosecutor DIDN'T DO HIS JOB. This is expected. The prosecutor works with the police to bring criminal cases to court. He has to have a working relationship with them. Understandable. However... This is exactly why the prosecutor is supposed to sit out in cases involving police misconduct and let a special prosecutor handle the job. What you are doing now is trying to prove a dead guy had it coming.
You can't do this for a few reasons.
1.) Lack of unbiased due process
2.) The other "crime" in question doesn't carry the death penalty.
Now why shouldn't we believe the officer? Because if the officer was being honest about the whole thing he wouldn't have needed the district attorney to try so hard to make sure the case never came to court. It's not rocket science.
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@TheChief Convenience store maybe. We certainly do not know about the gun. It is he said she said. We do know that robbing a convenience store usually does not carry the death penalty, especially if it is simply a case of shoplifting. But heres the thing you are missing. We don't know anything because there was no trial. Sometimes Grand Juries fail to indict because they believe there isn't a strong case for an indictment. In this case it was because the prosecutor DIDN'T DO HIS JOB. This is expected. The prosecutor works with the police to bring criminal cases to court. He has to have a working relationship with them. Understandable. However... This is exactly why the prosecutor is supposed to sit out in cases involving police misconduct and let a special prosecutor handle the job. What you are doing now is trying to prove a dead guy had it coming.
You can't do this for a few reasons.
1.) Lack of unbiased due process
2.) The other "crime" in question doesn't carry the death penalty.
Now why shouldn't we believe the officer? Because if the officer was being honest about the whole thing he wouldn't have needed the district attorney to try so hard to make sure the case never came to court. It's not rocket science.