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Do we know that to be the case? This could just as likely be an incompetent prosecutor showing up with inadequate or invalidated evidence and the jury throwing
by gorgoiler 1mo ago
Do we know that to be the case? This could just as likely be an incompetent prosecutor showing up with inadequate or invalidated evidence and the jury throwing the case out on grounds of procedural incompetence rather than sympathy.
- detourdog 1mo agoI don’t know it for a fact but the prosecutors apparently had video evidence and sales receipts. I was definitely projecting my own feelings on the grand jury response.
- ludicrousdispla 1mo agothat sounds exactly like "a jury of peers is standing up for individuals against corporate/government overreach"
- mbrameld 1mo ago> just as likely If you look at the success rate of prosecutors getting grand juries to indict, it's certainly not "just as likely".
- senordevnyc 1mo agoThe stat is very high, but that doesn’t tell you anything about why grand juries don’t indict in the small percentage where they don’t, nor why they elected not to here.
- LordDragonfang 1mo agoReal life events are rarely monocausal; it's not one "rather than" the other, instead it's almost certainly a combination of both (and other factors besides). Especially with (as several other commenters who pointed out) how rare a lack of indictment is.