by joesnufy » Mon 08 Dec 2014, 14:40:07
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Oneaboveall', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Keith_McClary', '[')url=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/04/eric-garner-indicted-cop-grand-juries-video-evidence]If Eric Garner's killer can't be indicted, what cop possibly could? It's time to fix grand juries[/url]
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')f you are an ordinary citizen being investigated for a crime by an American grand jury, there is a 99.993% chance you’ll be indicted. Yet if you’re a police officer, that chance falls to effectively nil.
I have read elsewhere that once you are indited you have a 99% chance of conviction. What other countries can beat that? North Korea?
I'm going to repost this. I noticed it's gotten more attention with all the recent publicity around grand juries:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') grand jury in Euharlee, Georgia has decided not to indict Cpl. Beth Gatny in the shooting death of Christopher Roupe. Roupe was a member of his school’s ROTC and was hoping to join the military after graduation.
On February 14th, Valentine’s Day, Gatny and some other officers knocked on the door of the mobile home where Roupe lived, in order to serve his father with a warrant for violating his probation. Gatny said she heard what she “believed to be a firearm” before the door opened, drew her pistol at Christopher and shot, believing the Wii controller in his hand was a gun.