Nov 26, 2014 · Brown Family Attorney: 'This Process is Broken'. The father of Michael Brown appeared at a news conference Tuesday wearing a T-shirt with the slogan, “No Justice No Peace,” but he did not ...
Nov 26, 2014 · Michael Brown's father, Michael Brown Sr., was standing beside Crump and Rev. Al Sharpton. Brown Sr. wore a red St. Louis Cardinals baseball cap like the one his son was wearing when he shot and ...
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An Assistant District Attorney gave inaccurate and misleading instructions to the Grand Jury at the beginning of the proceeding regarding controlling law on whether officers can kill a fleeing suspect without considering the officer’s fear of life. She cited a Missouri statute that had been overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1985. [9] She corrected the record weeks after citing the wrong statute and long after Officer Wilson had testified.
State grand juries tend to be more likely to excuse a police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed civilian, due to broad definitions of deadly force and the rules about when it is justified. In Houston, Texas, for example, local grand juries have cleared police of shooting civilians 288 consecutive times. [10] This is tends to be the case in Missouri, as a result of the extraordinary deference in Missouri law to police officer discretion. Missouri Revised Statutes § 563authorizes deadly force “in effecting an arrest or in preventing an escape from custody” if the officer “reasonably believes” it is necessary in order to “to effect the arrest and also reasonably believes that the person to be arrested has committed or attempted to commit a felony…or may otherwise endanger life or inflict serious physical injury unless arrested without delay.” [11]
As a general matter, prosecutors will try to avoid presenting a case to a grand jury when possible in order to avoid creating testimony that can be used to cross-examine a witness at trial, unless the prosecutor is trying to use the grand jury as a way to develop evidence for a prosecution.
The prosecutor typically instructs the jury on the law. Generally, grand juries will issue indictments in most if not all cases. The standard for indictment is probable cause. In the context of the grand jury, the Supreme Court has stated, “Probable cause, we have often told litigants, is not a high bar: It requires only the ‘kind ...
The grand jury process is now so routinized in most state jurisdictions that it has become a pro forma proceeding to deliver an indictment for a prosecutor. It is for this reason that most lawyers say, repeating the famous expression of the former chief judge of the highest New York state court, Sol Wachtler, that prosecutors can get grand juries to “indict a ham sandwich.” [4] According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, “U.S. attorneys prosecuted 162,000 federal cases in 2010, the most recent year for which we have data. Grand juries declined to return an indictment in 11 of them.” [5] These statistics may not be representative of all state grand jury practices – some of which are more pro forma in ordinary cases and others may require hearing a range of evidence that federal prosecutors are not required to present.
Many of the people unfortunate enough to be caught up in the legal system are completely unsatisfied with how the court system works and with how their attorneys are handling their case.
Mike has written several self-help books to instruct the average person how to represent himself in court and the books give you an idea of the work Mike is capable of doing. If you are facing an indictment, he is an expert in 'breaking' indictments and getting charges dropped, thus, preventing people from being convicted and sent to prison.