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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Milwaukee Sherrif David Clarke: Charges against Baltimore Police a miscarriage of justice

2015-05-02

[Daily Caller] CLARKE: "It's a miscarriage of justice. This neophyte prosecutor stood up there and made a political statement, Neil, and I say that because she chanting or voicing some of the chants from this angry mob. Her job is to tune that out. She said, 'I hear the voices.' She is not supposed to hear anything as she reviews this case that is not consistent with the rule of law and our system of justice.

Look, I'm an experienced and a veteran homicide detective. I've had -- I've participated in charging conferences. There's no way I have ever gotten a criminal charge within 24 hours after taking over all the reports and evidence to a prosecutor. A prosecutor who is thorough needs several days to sift through hundreds of pages of reports, they usually want to interview some of the witnesses themselves in person, and they have to sift through all of the evidence, piece by piece, and they have to wait for some of the forensic evidence to conclude to come back.

And that's why I say on a minimum, three to four days. She just got this case yesterday. This is political activism. She'll never prove this beyond a reasonable doubt and I'm not going to silently stand by and watch my brother officers offered up as human sacrifices, thrown like red meat to an angry mob, just to appease this angry mob."

Posted by:Besoeker

#7 Of course, if the jury finds the officers not guilty, the city will burn.

It needs to burn! All these Democrat crap holes need to burn, consider it a lesson in cause and effect.

Posted by: Devo 2015-05-02 12:51

#6 The LE I spoke with were most animated when talking about the ‘illegal detention’ charge. They said it basically sent an immediate message that it’s OK to run from cops.

Posted by: DepotGuy 2015-05-02 09:25

#5 LA cops redux. If they can drag it past the 2016 election they might avoid 'double jeopardy' with federal charges on the same crime, just named something different.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-05-02 08:45

#4 Oh and the harder the city tries to prosecute them, the harder the payback from the police will be. I suspect they and their families will attract LOTS of police notice resulting in fines and police trouble. The police will simply say "We're just doing our jobs"

Posted by: Silentbrick 2015-05-02 08:39

#3 Given the racial composition of the "perps" (3 & 3) it will be interesting to see how this goes down on that basis alone.

Posted by: AlanC 2015-05-02 08:34

#2 I'm not a lawyer, and I don't say that there's no culpability for something on the part of one or more of these officers, but I do know that deriving 'intent to murder' (2nd degree as charged) from a 'flyover' of the hard evidence would be foolish from a legal standpoint. They've taken the desired outcome and cherry-picked the data to support it. They were probably hoping to charge for 1st degree premeditated, but at least one cooler head prevailed.

The 'discovery' period might get real interesting for this State Attorney. She's already admitted that it is likely Gray died as a results of injuries sustained while riding in the back of the van without a seat belt. That kind of rules out the willful intent charge.

She's opened up the likely possibility that a good defense team for the officers will get the homicide charges she issued dropped.

Tough to go back and charge for 'lesser crimes' at that point.

Of course, if the jury finds the officers not guilty, the city will burn.

Posted by: Mullah Richard 2015-05-02 07:52

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