The evidence was strong enough to get 2 of the three involved to plead and never recant and he has been given a retrial after a reinvestigation and several other hearings. The Tyesha Edwards case was high profile true, But that was because the entire Metro area was outraged. She stepped in and brought in the County and the State to look over the shoulders of the Minneapolis Police when ask so that the relations between the AA community and the Mpls police would not cloud the verdicts. That was because she had built up the credibility in that community from the work she had already done. I'm sorry if I get so forceful about this but I live four blocks from were it happened and remember it well. There was very little doubt at the time that they had gotten the correct people. And that from people who knew the cast of characters well. Let us not forget they were gangbangers. While that is not even an indication of guilt, it does put the post trial recantations in a different light.
That AP story is fine, except it is never clear what investigation they are talking about? Was it the 2002 or the 2008? The answer was some from the first ad some from the second. How many rounds of recanting of the recanting of the recanting is enough. Once under oath there has actually been very little recanting. The system relies on adequate representation of the defendant, Burrell was given six different lawyers. When one didn't seem to work he fired them and was provided another. What is more when he was convicted the second time he got an even harsher sentence.
Next she was the county attorney, she had limited control over the Minneapolis or Bloomington or Richfield or any other police under her jurisdiction. That was the mayors. What is being said is that she didn't jump in aggressively enough on the limited number of police involved shooting where there was a possible reason to and when she did that she allowed the grand jury to decide.
Amy had a pretty good record, not perfect but pretty good. And if there was something actually systematically wrong with it we would have heard of it by now.
It will be something she will have to deal with but it is nothing she should be all that worried about.
Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
If I were to vote in a presidential
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