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proverbialwisdom

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Tue Aug 19, 2014, 07:20 PM Aug 2014

Michael Brown shooting case to go before grand jury Wednesday [View all]

Source: By Kevin McDermott, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Evidence in the shooting of Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer will be presented to a grand jury beginning Wednesday.

"We are going to attempt to start giving evidence to the grand jury (Wednesday), depending upon the ability to get the witnesses in and the witnesses showing up," said Ed Magee, spokesman for St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch. "It will be handled by the attorney regularly assigned to the grand jury. It will not be by Mr. McCulloch."

The standing St. Louis County Circuit Court grand jury, not a special assembly, will hear the evidence.

Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/michael-brown-shooting-case-to-go-before-grand-jury-wednesday/article_375eff87-6a6b-534b-abcc-a8664e7d3ba2.html

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