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And the defense counsel cheers, and the 5 other defense counsel waiting in line also cheer.
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God damn. This is so clear-cut … or so it appeared to be at one time.
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Amazing, considering his testimony conflicted greatly with the reports he filed the day of the event.
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What’s clear-cut is that cops can pretty much get away with murder.
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All it takes is one Faux News viewer on the jury.
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The truth here–which you probably know better than me, is that about thirty percent of the people in the jury pool will be authoritarians who will imagine whatever facts they have to imagine to make police violence be the victim’s fault and it’s virtually impossible to keep all of them off a jury and it only takes one of them to hang it.
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That matters nothing to some white racist prick on the jury who thinks “the kid had it coming because if he never had run, this never would have happened…should’ve just obeyed and they’d never have ruffed him up and forgotten his seatbelt.”
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Thankfully, he can probably be re-tried without running afoul of double jeopardy because a deadlocked jury generally satisfies the standard for manifest necessity…if I understand my crim-law correctly (but I don’t practice it, so I could be wrong). Moreover, I’d be adding charges for perjury based on his testimony differing so much from his sworn written reports after the incident.
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I dunno. The case against this particular officer seems a little murky, and I can see why some jurors may not have felt there was enough to convict. If it’s true that it wasn’t procedure to buckle in an arrestee and he did inform other officers that Gray needed medical attention, his culpability may have not have been as clear cut as the others. Also, I understand that the prosecution wanted him to turn state’s evidence against the others, so they may not have been fully convinced he acted maliciously (even though the absence of malice doesn’t mitigate manslaughter).
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He should have been found innocent. The only officer involved who could possibly have any culpability is the police van driver who is considered in charge of the vehicle.
All the other charges are as a result of the state’s attorney trying to protect/help her husband’s political goals on the city council.
Word on NPR’s ATC is that there is a conference with the prosecution, defense and the judge scheduled tomorrow to set a new trial date.
I expect the prosecutors will be talking with the jurors to (at least) see how the vote stood before they make a final decision about a re-trial.
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Jury trials are a farce.
Either you get the 12 dumbest people on the planet (the ones who aren’t interested enough in society to read or watch the news), or you get an inside plant who undermines the process and hangs the jury.
Shit is fucked up and bullshit.
Your daily overdose of filth…
That KKKomment section takes the cake…the bloody, racist, bigoted, undereducated, misinformed, white supremacist, vomit in your mouth a little cake. How such a repository of proof could exist for showing just what lies behind the GOP/Teatrolls and all of their tantrums and policies without it being publicized and condemned by the rest of the MSM is beyond me. Truly mind-numbing…
I think we all know what happened here…and so does the DA.
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Just three days for a manslaughter charge? Under cover of police authority?
How about seven days?
What we know:
Segments of cell phone video shot from two different positions appear to begin after Gray has been arrested and show officers dragging Gray, who is handcuffed, to a van.
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He can be heard screaming.
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He also requested an inhaler, as he suffers from asthma, but didn’t get it.
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Police have said Gray was not buckled in with a seat belt during the ride to a booking center and is a violation of their safety regulations.
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He was able-bodied when he went into the van, and we know that when he was finally taken out of the van, he was unresponsive.
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By the time he arrived at the police station a half hour later, he was unable to breathe or talk, suffering from injuries that would kill him.
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Gray was taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he underwent surgery for the sorts of injuries that doctors say are usually caused by serious car accident that damage the vertebrae surrounding the spinal cord.
Freddie Gray was taken on "a rough ride."
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Do you think a change of venue would have helped?
Excellent point-by-point timeline, Jalus.
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