{"id":2847,"date":"2014-08-20T08:30:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T12:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=2847"},"modified":"2014-08-20T08:30:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T12:30:01","slug":"rush-to-judgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/rush-to-judgment\/","title":{"rendered":"RUSH TO JUDGMENT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, supposedly, a grand jury convenes in Missouri to examine the facts surrounding the death of Michael Brown at the hands of FPD officer Darren Wilson, to determine if an indictable crime has been committed.\u00a0 One talking head on TV even said that hearsay would be permitted there, which if true is nothing less than a travesty.<\/p>\n<p>The grand jury review itself, it would seem, is coming awfully early.\u00a0 The general public does not realize how long it takes to complete a homicide investigation. The toxicology screen on the deceased, which can be a critical factor, may or may not have been completed yet, but to the best of my knowledge such results have not yet been released to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the grand jury will be under tremendous social and political pressure to indict.\u00a0 The state\u2019s own governor has, incredibly, called for \u201c<a href=\"%20http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2014\/08\/20\/missouri-gov-calls-for-vigorous-prosecution-ferguson-shooting-case\/\" target=\"_blank\">vigorous prosecution<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0Damn shame he didn\u2019t have the integrity to call for \u201cvigorous investigation\u201d instead.\u00a0 One should not be convicted before trial in the Governor\u2019s Mansion instead of in a courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>The smell of mob rule is growing stronger, and more fetid.<\/p>\n<p>Also today, Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to be on the ground in Ferguson for investigative purposes.\u00a0 Many pundits expect him to visit with the family of the deceased; certainly, there\u2019s nothing wrong with that.<\/p>\n<p>But I sincerely hope that the AG, our nation\u2019s chief law enforcement officer, will visit the family of the injured officer as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, supposedly, a grand jury convenes in Missouri to examine the facts surrounding the death of Michael Brown at the hands of FPD officer Darren Wilson, to determine if an indictable crime has been committed.\u00a0 One talking head on TV even said that hearsay would be permitted there, which if true is nothing less than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-legal-issues","8":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}