Transcripts show #DarrenWilson lied to the grand jury

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105. Yes, however

...during that process the prosecutor is supposed to be making a case FOR indicting (or in other words, prosecuting), not going out of their way to make sure an indictment doesn't happen. Which is what appears to have happened here.

This stream of consciousness of tweeted reactions from Lisa Bloom as she makes her way through the transcripts in total freaking disbelief at the conduct of the prosecutor over the course of a day is pretty illuminating:

https://storify.com/AtotheL/lisa-bloom-breaks-down-mcculloch-s-evidence-dump?utm_source=story&utm_media=storypage&utm_content=related

Particularly damning is the part where the prosecutor catches themselves calling it a crime, corrects themselves in front of the jury, and specifically states "not a crime, a situation"... making it as clear as possible they do NOT want the jury thinking of this as a crime. This from the person whose job it is to convince the jury that yes it damn well was a crime.


Another expert reaches the same conclusion in the LA times today:

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ferguson-da-analysis-20141126-story.html

"This was a strategic and problematic use of a grand jury to get the result he wanted," said Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., director of the Harvard Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard University. "As a strategic move, it was smart; he got what he wanted without being seen as directly responsible for the result."

Sullivan called the case "the most unusual marshaling of a grand jury's resources I've seen in my 25 years as a lawyer and scholar."

In other words, the entire proceeding was rigged to not indict, just so they could then go back to the public and say "What do you want us to do? We took it to a Grand Jury! We totally tried to get justice!"