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Grand Juries

Taken form comments following publication of The Union Future, in the NYT on DEC. 18, 2014 by David Brooks.

address the specific issue: how evidence is presented to a Grand Jury, and how the current system enables a "no indictment" decision, rather than a trial. When negligence comes down to a he said/she said in the evidence, or in the Garner case we even have a clear video, our current system always favors the police officer, it would seem. Why not automatically go to trial whenever an unarmed citizen is killed by an officer. This might stop some corruption.


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