Prosecutor Manipulates Grand Jury Process to Shield Officer – Marjorie Cohn

You know the fix is in when a suspect who shot an unarmed man voluntarily provides four hours of un-cross examined testimony to a grand jury without taking the Fifth.

On August 9, Ferguson, Missouri Police Officer Darren Wilson gunned down 18-year-old African American Michael Brown. Since that fateful day, people across the country have protested against racial profiling, excessive police force, and the failure of the criminal justice system to provide accountability.

The nail in the coffin of “equal justice under law” came on November 24, when the St. Louis County grand jury refused to indict Wilson for any criminal charges in the shooting death of Brown. In a virtually unprecedented move, St. Louis Prosecutor Robert McCulloch in effect deputized the grand jurors to sit as triers of fact as in a jury trial.

Prosecutor Twists Grand Jury Process to Shield Officer; Gov. Nixon’s refusal 2 replace McCullough key 2 law travesty! http://t.co/6O5vyxWrca

— Dale Hart (@BayAreaFaithful) November 30, 2014