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Gidney N Cloyd

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12. Exactly. I'm curious what the "witness" was picked up for and where the current...

Reply to Jackpine Radical (Reply #2)

Thu Apr 30, 2015, 10:45 AM

Apr 2015

...charges fall in the range of what he potentially could have been charged with.

Note I don't blame the guy. He'd have to be worried what would happen to him if he didn't cooperate and telling the truth isn't going to make Gray any less dead or likely put much of a dent in the number of bad cops.

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How do we know the cops/DA didn't cut a deal with that "witness?" Jackpine Radical Apr 2015 #2

your absoletly right Robbins Apr 2015 #4

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