Ferguson cop had "serious facial injury"?

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91. At least a visit to one of those urgent care clinics.

The ST. Louis County DA/prosecutor is in charge now. He or she is going for a grand jury indictment. Grand jury proceedings are secret, and the defense has no role whatsoever in the grand jury proceeding. The grand jury hears the prosecution's case and pretty much just the prosecution's case. The old saying is that a prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, and I expect that Wilson will be the ham sandwich here.

While the grand jury is meeting, and it does not meet every day and it handles many cases at once, I wouldn't expect to hear much from the prosecution. Wilson's defense team will also keep fairly quiet, because they don't want anything out there that could be used against Wilson.

The prosecutor has said that the grand jury may not finish with this case until October. I think that there will be more detailed information available then.

That said, I think that Wilson was in the wrong, and is morally responsible for the death of Michael Brown. However, moral culpability can be a different thing from legal responsibility. I hope that the prosecutor here does a better job than those two clowns down in Florida.