I agree, and I commented when Crump was hired that I thought that he and the prosecutor did a terrible job in the Trayvon Martin case.
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Okay, Statler. You should get back up to the balcony now. Waldorf is getting lonely.
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White people on pot = Shaggy from Scooby Doo
Black people on pot = âHulk Smash!â
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FACE.
PALM.
If Browns family thought that what has happened up until now was "character assassination," welcome to the wonderful reality of character execution.
Calling it right now, BTW. If this goes to trial (if), the cop is gonna walk because the crazy negro charged him while blasted on drugs. It will be central âevidenceâ and is now a de facto Get Out Of Jail Free card just sitting on the table, waiting to be played. It now introduces reasonable doubt into the equation. No jury will convict, and even if they do the judge will throw it out. Should it somehow make it past those hurdles, it will be thrown out on appeal.
The one avenue the Brown family has now is to sue their own attorney for malpractice and incompetence (something he should have already been disbarred for in the Martin case). Maybe they can sue this âmedicalâ examiner, also. In fact, with a talented legal team, they might be able to get him for public defamation given his fact-free opinion of marijuana. Modern medical science and evidence might give them a possibility there.
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Brilliant!
saying that since he had pot in his systemâŚits a âfactâ that it was laced? I mean the script writes itselfâŚMore race baiting from Fox News
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âI canât HEAR you!â
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Aye Aye Captain!
If âThe potâ made Michael Brown crazy, whatâs Wilfordâs excuse?
First rule in the white copsâ handbook is
shoot âblacks-acting-crazyâ then hide behind the badgeâŚ
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High levels of drug use could have made the cop act crazy, for that matter.
some things are too cruel for satire-although,g- knows, i miss him, too.
Heâs obviously been âwatching Gomer Pyle,â if you know what I mean.
Perfect illustration of the age and mindset of the GOP and Foxnews demographic
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I can top that. Four baked friends and I once watched an entire televised golf tournament for lack of motivation to get up and change it (this was back in the pre-remote days).
It was very, very green.
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Winner of the dayâŚOreoâs are worth the effortâŚ
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If someoneâs going to do it, though, isnât this guy exactly what youâd expect him to look like?
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Fresh off a successful conviction of Trayvon Martin, the media trial of Mike Brown continues unabated.
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Synthetic marijuana definitely could have made him go nuts. Anecdotal evidence is useless here. Paranoia can make people nuts and studies have shown weed to cause paranoia. If the cop is innocent he shouldnât be prosecuted. The witnesses say he is guilty. Iâm saying that as an African American who supports Asata Shakur.
Regardless of what happens with the criminal case against Officer Wilson protests shouldnât end until the racist municipal government and school district practices are put to an end. That is the real problem along with police brutality in general.
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It wonât introduce reasonable doubt, because there are too many witnesses who give consistent testimony. What it will do is give the people who never wanted to convict him anyway something to say. Wilson shot the Brown in the daylight at an apartment complex. There are going to be more witnesses than the 4 of 5 that we know of now.
But most importantly,
There are going to be two cases. The state case, which Wilson will beat if he ever even gets charged, and the Federal case which Wilson will not beat (Federal Attorneys almost never lose in court), but will not take place for a relatively long time. The Feds might take two years before they make an arrest but they have something like a 95% conviction rate. Wilson is gonna do LONG time.
The state, which is really the local level law enforcement, doesnât really want to prosecute Wilson at all. We can tell by their behavior. The only reason that they are going to a grand jury is because the city has been on fire for 10 or 11 days now. They will, no doubt present a weak case on purpose. I wonder if they have even spoken to witnesses, maybe not because witnesses donât want to talk to them. Wilson may even beat the local grand jury.
The feds, by contrast, are going to want to send a message. This has been happening way too often, at too many places around the country. Frankly, itâs got to be stopped. It is beginning to hurt race relations. And it is probably embarrassing us (The USA) in or foreign relations. They are going to have tons of witnesses, better lawyers than the state has, and eventually they will have all the forensics. But most importantly, they will have the will to get a conviction.
Wilson is toast, he is looking at 20 to 30 years of fed time. Actually, he needs to deal, and the state (apart from the locals) needs him to deal, and his family needs him to deal. When he beats that local case, it is going to set Ferguson and maybe even St. Louis ON FIRE. There is going to be a BIG riot, lots of damage, and the injuries, crimes, and deaths that come with riots of that size. Only to have Wilson lose to the feds and go to jail anyway.
Wilsonâs strongest position is BEFORE he goes to trial on any level. When the local prosecutor knows that the federal case is waiting over his shoulder and that the riot caused by the state losing will be for nothing, AND the feds know that the local prosecutor is going to deliberately lose the and case and cause a riot, for nothing.
If Wilson has a good enough lawyer, he could parlay that position and do some kind deal that says 20 year sentence on the surface (it has to be at least 20 years for the politics), but with credit for this & that, and good behavior he could be out in like 7 or 8. Thatâs the way Wilson should play it. Before he loses leverage.
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