Obama and Ferguson

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Poor Woodie. Even fucknut judge Scalia knows what a grand jury is supposed to do.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/justi...ely-wrong/

What those critics (and McCulloch) might not know is that the Supreme Court’s conservative firebrand, Antonin Scalia, explicitly laid out the role of grand juries in the 1992 Supreme Court case of United States v. Williams, and it is in stark contrast with what McCulloch did. Scalia wrote:

It is the grand jury’s function not ‘to enquire … upon what foundation [the charge may be] denied,’ or otherwise to try the suspect’s defenses, but only to examine ‘upon what foundation [the charge] is made’ by the prosecutor. Respublica v. Shaffer, 1 Dall. 236 (O. T. Phila. 1788); see also F. Wharton, Criminal Pleading and Practice § 360, pp. 248-249 (8th ed. 1880). As a consequence, neither in this country nor in England has the suspect under investigation by the grand jury ever been thought to have a right to testify or to have exculpatory evidence presented.

So, in addition to the well-known adage that a D.A. can indict a ham sandwich if he wants to, it is now also obvious that he can now not indict a racist piece of shit cop if he doesn't want to.