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In reply to the discussion: Wilson needs a fair and impartial trial [View all]gollygee
(22,336 posts)48. Excess weight doesn't make you stronger. It makes you slower.
They were the same height and Darren Wilson was in much better shape.
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He killed someone. The question is did he really have a defense that society recognizes?
JDPriestly
Nov 2014
#53
What the Grand Jury decides depends to a great extent on how the prosecutor picks and presents
JDPriestly
Dec 2014
#58
Those are not true "facts" but a lot of made up dialogue to say it was ok to shoot someone not
uppityperson
Nov 2014
#13
Nooo... they are not "Facts". The only one that comes close is shoplifting cigars.
uppityperson
Nov 2014
#27
Difficult to say what is going on there. He didn't attack a police officer.
uppityperson
Nov 2014
#30
Right... people should not allow physical evidence and first hand testimony sway their opinion
LostInAnomie
Nov 2014
#33
There's no proof he assaulted Wilson. Other than Wilson's own testimony. n/t
nomorenomore08
Nov 2014
#11
What you got there is evidence of a struggle and a Brown being hit by gunfire.
BootinUp
Nov 2014
#31
It makes you a hell of a lot harder to pull into the driver's seat of a car...
LostInAnomie
Nov 2014
#49
Michael managed to punch Wilson's right jaw through the window? Yet the door banging into him, him
uppityperson
Nov 2014
#32
That is an interesting way of looking at it. Would justice be served if he had such a trial and was
uppityperson
Nov 2014
#16
You really need to clarify your meaning here if you are in fact being ironic. nt
ucrdem
Nov 2014
#37
Won't help. Lizzie Borden was found "Not Guilty" and children were still singing that song.
Spitfire of ATJ
Nov 2014
#43
Perhaps he sees it as "the grand jury was given every last piece of evidence....
Nye Bevan
Nov 2014
#45