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Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera (san.com)
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[–] 55 points 1 day ago (1 child)

lol at first i thought it was a regular trial jury deciding to aquit, but damn if a prosecutor can't get a grand jury to indict, lmao.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    For those unfamiliar: the "grand jury" looked at all the evidence presented by the cops and ruled "no crime has been committed here, we don't even need to have a trial (with a whole other trial jury) because we dont see any possibility of crime"

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  • [–] 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    In addition, "grand juries" are notoriously easy for prosecutors influence and get an indictment (basically a go-ahead to proceed to a jury trial). The saying among defense attorneys is that grand juries are so easy to persuade, even a mildy competent prosecutor could get a grand jury to 'indict a ham sandwich'.

    So if they weren't able to get it past a grand jury, they either had absolutely no case, screwed something up majorly in presentation, or these camera are extremely and universally unpopular.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago

    Investigators, according to WKRC-TV in Cincinnati, identified Morelock after obtaining surveillance footage from other cameras near the scene as well as information linked to a credit card and a customer rewards account.

    Sounds like they had enough evidence -- I'm betting it's the "universally unpopular" explanation.

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