Shadow Trial: Prosecutors in Ferguson violated our right to an open criminal justice system.

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5. Sure, sure... if that helps you sleep better at night.

If you read the testimony, it's clear from the moment Brown's body started bleeding out on the street, this case was not being investigated like it mattered. Then it got into the hands of the prosecutor who didn't even want to look at evidence, let alone impanel a grand jury. He'd made up his mind before what evidence was left to collect was collected. Then when his hand was forced, he proclaims he gave the grand jury ALL THE EVIDENCE and all that evidence was presented to the grand jury, when in fact, that is not generally what is done at a grand jury. The prosecutor cherry picks his best evidence to show the grand jury and asks for an indictment, McCulloch didn't even ask for an indictment.

And thus, no one got justice in this case. And I'm not arguing that grand juries should be open to the public, I'm saying grand juries shouldn't be used as private trials (and this grand jury very much appears to have been a private trial--and I'm not the only one saying that, plenty of lawyer's and legal scholars are saying it too).