Shocking mistake in Darren Wilson grand jury

In the Rewrite, Lawrence looks at a major correction the assistant prosecutors had to make to the grand jury in the Michael Brown case. The asst

Full transcript of Lawrence O'Donnell's segment:

"Just before officer Darren Wilson testified before the Grand Jury investigating his killing of Michael Brown, assistant district attorney handling the case said this to the Grand Jurors..

Grand Jury Sept. 16, 2014| MS Alizadeh, Asst. prosecutor:
"I'm going to pass out to you all, you are all going to receive a copy of a statute, It is section 563.046, and it is, it says law enforcement officers use of force in making an arrest, And it is the law on what is permissible, what force is permissible and when in making an arrest by a police officer"

Lawrence O'Donnell's telling of it continues:
"The assistant DA Kathy Alizadeh then handed the Grand Jury a copy of a 1979 Missouri Law that was ruled unconstitutional by the united States Supreme Court in 1985. She was handing them something that had not been Law in Missouri during her entire legal career.

But it was helpful to officer Darren Wilson that the Assistant District Attorney handed the jury an old unconstitutional law which said incorrectly that it is legal to shoot fleeing suspects simply because they are fleeing. By handing the Grand Jury that unconstitutional Law the ADA dramatically lowered the standard by which Darren Wilson could be judged.

She was telling the Grand Jury with that document that Darren Wilson had the Right, the legal Right to shoot and kill Michael Brown as soon as Michael Brown started running away from him.

She was telling the Grand Jury that Darren Wilson didn't have to feel his life was threatened at all by Michael Brown. She was taking the hurdle that Darren Wilson had to get over in his testimony and flattening it. She was making it impossible for Darren Wilson to fail in front of this Grand Jury. She was doing all of that by handing the Grand Jury a so-called Law that has never been the Law of Missouri during her entire legal career.

The portion of the Missouri Law that says that a police officer is..


Chapter 563.064:
"..justified in the use of such physical force as he or she reasonably believes is immediately necessary to effect the arrest or to prevent the escape from custody."

..That was ruled unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court in 1985. It was legal to shoot and kill suspects in most states until the Supreme Court made it illegal in 1985 and everyone in law enforcement knows that. Everyone except the two ADA's who were presenting the evidence to the Jury in one of the most important cases of police use of Deadly Force in this country since 1985.
There is nothing more helpful the ADA could have done for officer Darren Wilson before; right before his testimony, than show that incorrect, outdated unconstitutional Law to the Grand Jury. The Grand Jury then listened to officer Wilson's testimony with the belief that anything he did to Michael Brown would be fully justified legally simply because Michael Brown at some point ran away, from officer Wilson.

There was a time when that's all you had to do in America to be legally shot and killed by a police officer; just run away from the officer. In those days American police were summarily executing people in the streets for suspicion of crimes that, if they were convicted for, they would not have gotten the death penalty, and in many case, not even gone to jail.
Kids jumping out of stolen cars and running away from cops could be, legally, shot in the back and killed in those days for a crime that obviously did not carry the death penalty. There was actually one case of a man who spit on a police officer, then ran away from the police officer and was legally shot and killed by the police officer. Spitting on a police officer was a crime in that state but it did not carry the death penalty,..unless you ran away from the officer.

The District Attorney's office allowed the Grand Jurors to travel back in time to the 'good ol' days' of American law enforcement when the cops could shoot people for running away. Before Darren Wilson was born; that's how far back in time they went. The ADA's did that by using the old unconstitutional Law as the window through which these Grand Jurors would evaluate Darren Wilson's conduct. The Grand Jury listened to the officers testimony believing that according to the law, Michael Brown did not have to pose any kind of threat to officer Wilson to justify officer Wilson shooting him dead.

Weeks after Officer Wilson testified; several weeks after that, just as the Grand Jury was about to consider what charges they might vote for, the ADA Kathy Alizadeh knew that she had better amend the record of these proceedings by introducing to the Grand Jury the real Law. The accurate Law on police use of Deadly Force in Missouri.

And so she told the Grand Jury..


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/28/1347938/-In-officer-Darren-Wilson-s-defense#


http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/shocking-mistake-in-darren-wilson-grand-jury-364273731666


The system was rigged and showing an unconstitutional law to the grand jurors proves it.
We have a criminal justice system where innocent until you run out of money is the rule and plea bargains by the poor innocents is the result.