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2015-05-02 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Milwaukee Sherrif David Clarke: Charges against Baltimore Police a miscarriage of justice

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Posted by Besoeker 2015-05-02 01:34|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

Posted by 2015-05-02 02:40|| 2015-05-02 02:40|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm not a lawyer, and I don't say that there's no culpability for something on the part of one or more of these officers, but I do know that deriving 'intent to murder' (2nd degree as charged) from a 'flyover' of the hard evidence would be foolish from a legal standpoint. They've taken the desired outcome and cherry-picked the data to support it. They were probably hoping to charge for 1st degree premeditated, but at least one cooler head prevailed.

The 'discovery' period might get real interesting for this State Attorney. She's already admitted that it is likely Gray died as a results of injuries sustained while riding in the back of the van without a seat belt. That kind of rules out the willful intent charge.

She's opened up the likely possibility that a good defense team for the officers will get the homicide charges she issued dropped.

Tough to go back and charge for 'lesser crimes' at that point.

Of course, if the jury finds the officers not guilty, the city will burn.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2015-05-02 07:52|| 2015-05-02 07:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Given the racial composition of the "perps" (3 & 3) it will be interesting to see how this goes down on that basis alone.

Posted by AlanC 2015-05-02 08:34|| 2015-05-02 08:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh and the harder the city tries to prosecute them, the harder the payback from the police will be. I suspect they and their families will attract LOTS of police notice resulting in fines and police trouble. The police will simply say "We're just doing our jobs"

Posted by Silentbrick 2015-05-02 08:39|| 2015-05-02 08:39|| Front Page Top

#5 LA cops redux. If they can drag it past the 2016 election they might avoid 'double jeopardy' with federal charges on the same crime, just named something different.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-05-02 08:45|| 2015-05-02 08:45|| Front Page Top

#6 The LE I spoke with were most animated when talking about the ‘illegal detention’ charge. They said it basically sent an immediate message that it’s OK to run from cops.

Posted by DepotGuy 2015-05-02 09:25|| 2015-05-02 09:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Of course, if the jury finds the officers not guilty, the city will burn.

It needs to burn! All these Democrat crap holes need to burn, consider it a lesson in cause and effect.

Posted by Devo 2015-05-02 12:51|| 2015-05-02 12:51|| Front Page Top

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