ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – After facing criticism for his handling of the Ferguson grand jury investigation, St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch may have his law license threatened.
A group headed by Dr. Christi Griffin with the Ethics Project will meet tonight to determine whether it will file an ethics complaint against McCulloch with the Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, an agency of the Missouri Supreme Court.
Griffin says initial reports from the Ferguson police chief that Darren Wilson did not know that Michael Brown was suspected in an earlier convenience store robbery were changed in testimony before the grand jury, and she believes that represents perjury.
“He is the one that is allowing that perjured testimony to be presented to the grand jury, and that is a direct violation of the Code of Professional Ethics,” she says.
Any prosecutor worth his or her salt can get any grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. That’s a fact. So if a person is not indicted it means that the prosecutor did not want to indict that individual. For whatever reason. Clearly McCulloch and the prosecutor on Staten Island did not want to get an indictment in either case. Why was that? Was it because they were afraid of or beholden to the police unions? Every police union in every local must be investigated. There needs to be established an elected civilian police review board in every city and town to investigate all police cases involving the use of force and possible corruption. The police must not be allowed to police themselves.
They can’t see the forest for the trees. McCulloch most likely participated in the preparation of Darren Wilson’s testimony.
“Griffin says initial reports from the Ferguson police chief that Darren Wilson did not know that Michael Brown was suspected in an earlier convenience store robbery were changed in testimony before the grand jury, and she believes that represents perjury.”
Unfortunately, I don’t think that the initial statements were under oath,
therefore the sworn grand jury testimony takes precedence.
OTOH, the market’s 911 call came at a time when Darren Wilson wound not have known about it, so that a strong circumstantial case might still be made.
I’d say that willfully deceiving the grand jury with that known to be unconstitutional statute and then later providing a “correction” which you refuse to explain ought to be grounds for any state bar worth shit to disbar every single lawyer remotely involved with that travesty of justice. Of course nobody, not even O’Donnell will call them out for those lies, oh, it was “just a mistake” mabye even an egregious one, but nope, they won’t call it a lie, which it obviously was.