Prosecutor Bob McCulloch May Face Ethics Complaints For Perjury

[sheshe2]

ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – After facing criticism for his handling of the Ferguson grand jury investigation, St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch may have his law license threatened.

A group headed by Dr. Christi Griffin with the Ethics Project will meet tonight to determine whether it will file an ethics complaint against McCulloch with the Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, an agency of the Missouri Supreme Court.

Griffin says initial reports from the Ferguson police chief that Darren Wilson did not know that Michael Brown was suspected in an earlier convenience store robbery were changed in testimony before the grand jury, and she believes that represents perjury.

“He is the one that is allowing that perjured testimony to be presented to the grand jury, and that is a direct violation of the Code of Professional Ethics,” she says.

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[avebury]

1. He is not the only one in his

office that needs to have complaints filed on. His minions in conducting the GJ hearing were hardly ethical when they presented a law that had been overturned by the US Supreme Court as still the law of Missouri.

[99th_Monkey]

8. "Just following my orders" nt

[avebury]

12. That excuse did not work out too well during

the Nuremberg Trials.

[99th_Monkey]

13. "exactly"

and let's hope it doesn't get any traction now either.

[avebury]

14. Unfortunately, those in official positions

operate under the "Do as we say, not as we do" philosophy so I doubt that anything will come of it.

[Cha]

2. Slimebucket sounds like he was willing to risk his career to save a killer cop.

Thanks for bringing 3chicspolitico report on board, she.

[sheshe2]

29. He can go F himsellf.

I hate that he is a Democrat. That breaks my heart Cha

[Cha]

31. He's a dem in name only.. zell miller's a dem.. it means nothing. The D doesn't make the person..

the actions of said person make who they are.. and Bob McCulloch should have recused himself before he ever got started on this path to exposing himself as a corrupted prosecutor.. but, he didn't.

[madokie]

3. Burn this racist asshole

Thats the only way we'll get this shit stopped

[sheshe2]

9. Yup. Burn his racist ass!

[Jackpine Radical]

18. I'm on board with that.

It's not just the Blue Wall that's the problem. The whole system is rife with the appearance and reality of corruption.

[Gothmog]

4. O'Donnel has done some good job on this issue

[Spazito]

5. An ethics complaint should definitely be filed...

against McCulloch AND the two ADAs Alizadeh and Whirley. They should lose their license to practice, imo, at the very least.

[BrotherIvan]

6. YES!!!!!!!

They are all complicit. Their actions throughout the grand jury including handing out an unconstitutional law and then refusing to explain it to the jury when they handed out a new one.

"We don't want a law class." Yeah, right.

[brer cat]

7. He did everything he possibly could to indict Brown

and not Wilson. He needs to be investigated for his entire handling of the GJ, and lose his law license if found guilty.

[KingCharlemagne]

10. By allowing the clearly perjured testimony of Witness #40 to reach the

GJ, McCulloch and his staff of little Eichmanns clearly suborned perjury.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/02/1348854/-Please-read-Witness-40-s-FBI-interview-and-grand-jury-testimony-Just-read-it

[sheshe2]

11. Thank you for the link, KingC.

Though I must admit I almost threw up at the first line. UGLY PERSON. I hope there will be hell to pay for all of these people and a special place in hell for there racist souls.

[KingCharlemagne]

15. It's important to read Witness #40's FBI statement before considering just what it means

that this witness was allowed to give testimony to the GJ. (The FBI statement is included as part of Vol 15 of the GJ transcript and the only unfortunate thing is that we can't see the expression on the FBI agents' faces as they listened to her lie and lie again.)

That should be a fundamental part of the case against McCulloch.

[sheshe2]

16. I sure as hell hope so!

Thanks~

[Dustlawyer]

22. OMFG!!! This is the witness that McCulloch said was credible and the others were not!?

McCulloch, the other two Asst., D.A.'s, and this piece of shit, all need to go straight to F'in prison in General Population! I really don't even know what to say, that's not only obvious perjury, but obviously not a prosecutor going for an indictment of Derren Wilson! This just makes me sick!

[KingCharlemagne]

24. Actually, in fairness to McCulloch, I believe the witness you are

thinking of -- whom McCulloch deemed 'credible' -- is Witness #10. That witness also has major problems with his testimony -- not least the indisputable fact that he changed his testimony on more than one occasion -- but does not appear to have openly perjured himself the way Witness #40 so clearly has.

That McCulloch allowed the GJ to hear Witness #40 goes to the heart of my allegation that McCulloch suborned perjury.

[Dustlawyer]

26. Exactly! He actively tried to defend Wilson with this pseudo trial that even Nancy Grace

refused to defend! This so called witness would NEVER, EVER be used by any attorney in their right mind!

[marym625]

17. YAY!!!!!!!!!

[nikto]

19. We'll find out if legal relativism in service of hate is ok----This seems unequivocal

Maybe 2 wrongs do = a right after all?

This one seems hard to wiggle-out of.

The results of this will reveal a lot of what's what in America.

I say----Don't take your eyes off this.

[neverforget]

20. I hope so!

K&R

[etherealtruth]

21. I certainly hope so

It would put (at least part of) the universe back in balance. It would be wonderful for him to lose his career .... for lying and trying to preserve Wilson's.

It won't bring Michael brown back .... it won't force Wilson to answer for his deeds .... but would be sweet

[spanone]

23. k&r....for mr. brown & justice.

[aquart]

25. Disbarment is appropriate.

[still_one]

27. I'll believe it when I see it

[Nye Bevan]

28. What I'm missing here: is it typical to blame the prosecutor when a witness commits perjury?

Is it not usually the witness who is guilty of perjury in a case like this?

[Recursion]

35. If the prosecutor lets a witness he knows will perjure himself testify, sure

The missing step I'm seeing here is in the assumption that the initial statements that Wilson didn't hear the dispatch call were correct. That's hard to demonstrate.

[roody]

30. What has he been eating?

He looks very unhealthy.

[branford]

32. I can almost guarantee that McCulloch will not be disciplined, no less disbarred.

Prosecutors (and many other attorneys, depending on their specialty) face ethics complaints all the time. Virtually none are supported by appropriate evidence and are dismissed. An ethics hearing will not be a substitute for what amounts to a perjury trial, and I would not be surprised if the organization in the blog ultimately decides not to even file the complaint. Moreover, even if the complaint is actually filed and found to have merit, the punishment would likely be little more than the equivalent of a warning or letter of admonishment, particularly for matters prior to a trial when prosecutors have almost unlimited discretion.

McCulloch, the MO Attorney General, the DOJ, most major bar associations, and virtually every other disinterested attorney and legal scholar know these simple truths. I'm not sure if the repeated threads about how McCulloch is on the cusp of disbarment constitute willful ignorance of the legal system or people just lashing out in response to a result they find distasteful or unjust.

I, too, believed that an indictment could easily have been procured if the prosecutors so desired (I'm far less certain if a conviction was a realistic possibility). However, that does not mean McCulloch's apparent choice to use the grand jury for political cover for his decision not to prosecute is in any way illegal or a breach of any ethical obligation.

If McCulloch's view of the evidence against Wilson is a fraction as wrong as many here suggest, and his conduct before the grand jury similarly unjust, one would assume a federal indictment should then be easily and swiftly attained. I'm still waiting, and expect such a federal indictment right after the DOJ announces charges against Zimmerman.

[aquart]

33. Disbarment is appropriate.

[Recursion]

34. Good, though that seems like a hard one to make stick, because the obvious response is

for the chief to say he was wrong in the initial media reports.

[freshwest]

36. Good.