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02-05-2015, 08:34 AM
Journalist Tom Hays wrote for The Associated Press 5 February 2015:
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Two months after a grand jury declined to press criminal charges in the police killing of an unarmed New York City man, a state judge must decide whether to disclose details of the secret proceedings. The New York Civil Liberties Union and other petitioners have gone to court on Staten Island to demand that Judge William Garnett open the record in the Eric Garner case — a position opposed by Richmond Count District Attorney Daniel Donovan. Garnett is set to hear arguments at a hearing on Thursday morning. In court papers, the NYCLU cited the outcry over the grand jury's decision not to indict Daniel Pantaleo — the white New York Police Department officer seen on a widely watched video putting the unarmed black man in what the medical examiner called a fatal chokehold — as a compelling reason to make an exception to the long-standing practice of keeping the process secret.
...Such disclosure would "almost certainly have a chilling effect on the very type of witness cooperation that is most desired and the most difficult to obtain," the papers add.
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It is most certainly not unknown that sometimes, grand juries are led around by the nose by an unscrupulous prosecutor.
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Two months after a grand jury declined to press criminal charges in the police killing of an unarmed New York City man, a state judge must decide whether to disclose details of the secret proceedings. The New York Civil Liberties Union and other petitioners have gone to court on Staten Island to demand that Judge William Garnett open the record in the Eric Garner case — a position opposed by Richmond Count District Attorney Daniel Donovan. Garnett is set to hear arguments at a hearing on Thursday morning. In court papers, the NYCLU cited the outcry over the grand jury's decision not to indict Daniel Pantaleo — the white New York Police Department officer seen on a widely watched video putting the unarmed black man in what the medical examiner called a fatal chokehold — as a compelling reason to make an exception to the long-standing practice of keeping the process secret.
...Such disclosure would "almost certainly have a chilling effect on the very type of witness cooperation that is most desired and the most difficult to obtain," the papers add.
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article (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_POLICE_CHOKEHOLD_DEATH?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-02-05-02-26-36)
It is most certainly not unknown that sometimes, grand juries are led around by the nose by an unscrupulous prosecutor.