Grand jury considering the Ferguson shooting is being investigated for misconduct

[MohRokTah]

This is pretty huge:

Grand jury considering the Ferguson shooting is being investigated for misconduct

By Kimberly Kindy October 1 at 6:17 PM

The St. Louis County prosecutor’s office is investigating an accusation of misconduct on the grand jury that is hearing the case against the Ferguson police officer who shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown.

Ed Magee, the spokesman for county prosecutor Robert McCulloch, said they received the information from a “Twitter user” Wednesday morning.

“We are looking into the matter,” he said.

An account of possible jury misconduct surfaced Wednesday morning on Twitter, when several users sent messages about one juror who may have discussed evidence in the case with a friend.

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WaPo link

For anybody interested, it was Shaun King who exposed this misconduct:

Shaun King
‏@ShaunKing

Within seconds of posting this, her friends told her to delete it and she did. It was screenshotted first.

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Twitter Link

[hrmjustin]

1. Impanel another grand jury.

[Blue_Tires]

2. Wow...Assuming that woman is legit

These fuckin' people are stopping at nothing to rig an acquittal -- No matter how down and dirty they have to get...

Of course if anyone in Fla. gave a shit, there was misconduct in Zimmerman's jury that could have been investigated...

[davidn3600]

3. Florida didn't want to bring that case anyway

1. Prosecutors overcharged the case making their burden of proof harder to reach.
2. The state had to be pressured into it by public opinion.
3. Prosecutors poorly prepared their star witness (Rachel Janteel) which allowed the defense to tear her apart.
4. Police that were testifying were mainly corroborating Zimmerman's story.
5. Prosecution didn't bother explain to the jury about any lesser-included charges (you can tell the jury was confused about it because they asked a question about it that was basically not answered).

So Im not sure any jury would have convicted under these circumstances. If the state puts on a crappy case, it usually leads to acquittal.

[Calista241]

23. You forgot the guy that did the autopsy.

Mr. I read a paper yesterday and now I've changed my mind.

He has to be the best prosecution witness of all time.

[BronxBoy]

4. Wow...is right

I'll wait for more info to come out but this cannot be good

[gopiscrap]

5. The DOJ needs to come in and take over

the entire case.

[Cali_Democrat]

8. I don't think the DOJ can pursue criminal charges...only civil rights charges

Any lawyers here?

[gopiscrap]

9. Violation of Civil Rights and conspiracy to violate rights

are criminal offenses in the federal statutes. That's how the government finally nailed all those KKK white crackers. Many of them who murdered and maimed, still haven't been brought to trial for that, but they served prison sentences for the rights violations.

[pscot]

11. Who's in charge at DOJ

now that Holder is gone?

[gopiscrap]

12. Holder hasn't quit

he will stay on until Obama's nominee is confirmed. Obama has not named a choice yet.

[BronxBoy]

6. So after rereading it....

the question is whether the tweet came from a person who really knows someone on the grand jury.

Even if the fix is in, the last thing this country needs is for it to be put out there that the fix is in and a new grand jury is not empaneled

[Oktober]

7. There are two separate categories...

Assuming that the person tweeting does have inside knowledge of the inner workings of that specific grand jury...

a) There really isn't enough evidence, by a legal standard, to indict

or

b) The desire to prosecute really isn't there but in that case the "fix" is with the prosecutor's office and not the grand jury.

[BronxBoy]

10. Thank you...there's probably a third....

The tweeter is talking out of her ass and is probably dumping gas on an already smoldering fire

[Oktober]

15. The most likely possibility...

Mine were under the assumption that the twitter can be taken as true on its face.

[justiceischeap]

13. The supposed friend Jodie comes to mind

It could very well be someone making shit up thinking they're helping Wilson.

[Hoyt]

14. McCulloch could have gone straight to a preliminary hearing if he were serious.

[ColesCountyDem]

17. He may have wanted to avoid a preliminary hearing.

I suspect that's why he didn't file an information.

[Hoyt]

20. I guess he felt it better to let it die in grand jury. That is sad.

He's made it petty clear he's not presenting an aggressive case before the grand jury.

[marble falls]

16. Surprised and not surprised at the same time. Angry either way. Has anybody noticed:.....

the RW hasn't produced any examples pf black police violence on white suspects?

[ancianita]

18. I really like that you're so on this. Thanks. nt

[MohRokTah]

19. Shaun King is on this.

I'm just a Twitter follower of Shaun King.

Oh, and now I follow him on DailyKos. He was announced by Markos today to be their newest front page writer:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/01/1333655/-Meet-our-newest-writer-Shaun-King

[davidpdx]

21. *shakes head*

This is SO fucked up

[Ruby the Liberal]

22. Google cache of her now deleted twitter account

RWNJ and racist to the core.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5gmaxhyENV0J:https://www.toptweet.org/user/thesusannichols+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us