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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Giuliani: Federal Grand Jury Would Also Find No True Bill in Mike Brown Case
December 1, 2014 - 2:31 PM
By Melanie Hunter
Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City (AP)
(CNSNews.com) – Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on “Fox News
Sunday” predicted that a federal grand jury investigating the Mike Brown
shooting would “find no true bill” to indict former Ferguson, Mo., officer
Darren Wilson just like the state grand jury did.
“It's an impossible case to present to a grand jury. A federal grand jury
in my experience, having been in front of hundreds of them, would find no
true bill here, just like this grand jury did,” Giuliani said in reference
to the state’s grand jury.
As CNSNews.com reported, Brown’s family will “pursue all the legal avenues
,” according to their attorney, Benjamin Crump, including the creation of
the so-called “Michael Brown law,” which would require all officers
nationwide to wear body video cameras.
"The family will pursue all the legal avenues, potential civil wrongful
death lawsuit, as well as look at pushing forward with proposed legislation
for (a) Michael Brown law -- working with the National Bar Association,
NAACP, National Action Network, and others to have it where it is required
that every police officer in every American city is required to have video
body cameras, so it will be transparent; we won't see this play out over and
over again, whether it's in New York or Louisiana or Texas," Crump said on
CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
Fox host Chris Wallace asked whether Giuliani saw any basis for either
investigation by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the U.S. Justice
Department.
“Having read the transcripts now of the grand jury, FBI interviews and all
of that, and having been a prosecutor for 13 years, I don't see how this
case normally would even have been brought to a grand jury,” Giuliani said.
“This is the kind of case had it not had the racial overtones and national
publicity where a prosecutor would have come to the conclusion that there's
not enough to evidence to present to the grand jury. There are seven
witnesses who support the police officer's testimony,” he said.
“When I was listening, what was left out is a key witness, an African-
American witness, says that the officer was charged aggressively at the very
end,” Giuliani added.
“If I may, sir, the question, though, is what do you think now of it going
to the federal level and Attorney General Holder investigating?” Wallace
asked.
“It's the same testimony. I mean, it's the same witnesses,” Giuliani said.
“In other words, the Attorney General Holder is going to have to take a
case in which a jury couldn't find probable cause to indict, and he's going
to have to find probable cause in front of a federal grand jury, when there
are seven African-American witnesses supporting the police officer's
testimony,” he said.
“The witnesses on the other side, not all, but almost all of them have
impeachable testimony. In fact, a couple of them committed perjury, saying
he was shot in the back when he clearly wasn't,” Giuliani added. |
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