Why Bob McCulloch Did the Right Thing in Ferguson

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Why Bob McCulloch Did the Right Thing in Ferguson

 

By Robert Tracinski DECEMBER 2, 2014

St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch has come in for a lot of criticism for the way he brought the Ferguson police shooting to a grand jury.

 

The criticism is that he clearly did not want to get an indictment, which he presumably could have gotten if he wanted it. Instead of feeding the grand jury just enough one-sided evidence to get the indictment—which is considered to be the usual practice—he gave them all the evidence in the case and allowed them to question witnesses.

 

 

Oh, the horror. To give grand jurors all of the evidence instead of skewing it in your direction! Clearly an abuse of power.

 

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December 2, 2014

Grand Juries and Ferguson

By Jonathan F. Keiler

Shortly after a Missouri grand jury declined to indict police offer Darren Wilson for shooting Michael Brown, the leftist legal commentariat jumped on prosecutor Robert McCulloch for not presenting evidence in a way that would have produced an indictment. This goes under the well-worn idea that a decent prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich if he or she is so inclined. Had McCulloch presented a biased case against Wilson which is what many prosecutors routinely do, there is little doubt that the grand jury in the case would have returned an indictment. In other words, the case against McCulloch is that he did not abuse his office, like, say, Eric Holder might have been counted on to do, and thus produce an unjust result to satisfy the mob.

 

Jonathan Tobin points out that the “ham sandwich” analogy was not invented as an example to be emulated, but rather a criticism of the way the system is often abused by lazy or ambitious prosecutors.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/11/grand_juries_and_ferguson.html

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Opinions Versus Facts

Thomas Sowell | Dec 02, 2014

Everyone seems to have an opinion about the tragic events in Ferguson, Missouri. But, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan used to say, "You're entitled to your own opinion but you're not entitled to your own facts."

 

Soon after the shooting death of Michael Brown, this 285-pound young man was depicted as a "gentle giant." But, after a video was leaked, showing him bullying the owner of a store from which he had stolen some merchandise, Attorney General Eric Holder expressed http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell