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<blockquote data-quote="DriveInDriѵeOut" data-source="post: 1460496" data-attributes="member: 44954">&quot;Our only goal was that our investigation would be thorough and complete, to give the grand jury, the Department of Justice and ultimately the public all available evidence,&quot; McCulloch said in announcing that the jury had found no probable cause to bring Wilson to trial on criminal charges.The tactic was a shrewd maneuver, legal experts say, in which McCulloch both deflected responsibility for his own failure to charge Wilson and — deliberately or not — created conditions in which the grand jury would not be likely to charge him either.&quot;This was a strategic and problematic use of a grand jury to get the result he wanted,&quot; said Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., director of the Harvard Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard University. &quot;As a strategic move, it was smart; he got what he wanted without being seen as directly responsible for the result.&quot;Most tellingly, legal experts said, McCulloch did not challenge Wilson&#039;s detailed account of his encounter with Brown. That, they said, prompted jurors to accept at face value Wilson&#039;s testimony that he feared for his life as Brown allegedly charged at him after he punched the officer and tried to grab his gun.&quot;A first-year law student would have done a better job of cross-examining Wilson&quot;, said Benjamin Crump, a lawyer for Brown&#039;s family. &quot;When was his credibility ever challenged?&quot;<a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ferguson-da-analysis-20141126-story.html" target="_blank">http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ferguson-da-analysis-20141126-story.html</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="DriveInDriѵeOut, post: 1460496, member: 44954"] "Our only goal was that our investigation would be thorough and complete, to give the grand jury, the Department of Justice and ultimately the public all available evidence," McCulloch said in announcing that the jury had found no probable cause to bring Wilson to trial on criminal charges. The tactic was a shrewd maneuver, legal experts say, in which McCulloch both deflected responsibility for his own failure to charge Wilson and — deliberately or not — created conditions in which the grand jury would not be likely to charge him either. "This was a strategic and problematic use of a grand jury to get the result he wanted," said Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., director of the Harvard Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard University. "As a strategic move, it was smart; he got what he wanted without being seen as directly responsible for the result." Most tellingly, legal experts said, McCulloch did not challenge Wilson's detailed account of his encounter with Brown. That, they said, prompted jurors to accept at face value Wilson's testimony that he feared for his life as Brown allegedly charged at him after he punched the officer and tried to grab his gun. "A first-year law student would have done a better job of cross-examining Wilson", said Benjamin Crump, a lawyer for Brown's family. "When was his credibility ever challenged?" [url]http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ferguson-da-analysis-20141126-story.html[/url] [/QUOTE]

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