RE: Micheal Brown deserved to be shot.
December 5, 2014 at 5:47 pm
(This post was last modified: December 5, 2014 at 5:48 pm by Losty.)
(December 5, 2014 at 5:38 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: No, the prosecutor shouldn't always push for an indictment. That's how innocent people wind up in jail, the courts get cluttered up with frivolous and unwinnable cases, and cost the taxpayers and innocent defendants millions of dollars in legal costs. Plus You don't want a trial if you don't think there is a good chance of conviction. If the case is weak and a criminal trial results in an acquittal the courts don't get a second chance at it. It is over. On the other hand Darren Wilson can still be indicted and tried at this point should new evidence become available.
As far as all police shooting going to trial that's just silly. Yes police officers should be held to higher not lower standard. Yes there should be an independent investigation by an unrelated agency. But you are saying the cop that just shot somebody while they were in middle of murdering a bus load of kids should be charged with a crime and tried.
I feel like you don't know how the criminal justice system works. I didn't say police officers should always be charged with a crime. You never get the opportunity to be indicted if you haven't been charged with a crime.
If a police officer is charged with a crime they should always go to trial. If a police officer shoots someone who is murdering a bus full of kids, he wouldn't be charged and therefore there would be no indictment or trial. 0.o
So yes, if a police officer is charged with a crime the prosecutor should always push for indictment.