Sunday, January 3, 2016

Grand Juries- Unjust Tool Used By Prosecutors

One Explanation



Another Stronger Explanation



WARNING
A Profanity Laced Tirade By Former Manhattan Prosecutor Ikiesha Al-Shabazz Whittaker


As far as I'm concerned grand juries are the worse part of our justice system and should be done away with. They are unfair to both those accused and to people who are forced to serve on them. Not only are several hundreds of hours required of those forced to serve locally but so too often forced to travel 100's of miles round trip especially on federal empanelment's.

Take for example my wife living here in Allentown
Although not chosen she would have been required (regardless of her employment situation) to travel 62 miles into Philadelphia and back several times a month for over a year. Bus service is nearly non existent thus she'd be forced to drive herself down the 'sure-kill' expressway In addition she watches our two grandkids while their mother works three days a week for 13 hours each day. Heaven forbid any of these high salaried prosecutors should drag there asses up to where these two dozen or so members of the pool live where they were subpoenaed from. We wouldn't want to inconvenience them would we.

Face it, any prosecutor who can't build a case w/o a grand jury is on a fishing expedition.

On the other hand lets also remember a prosecutor is an elected official. If they want to get off the hook for not charging someone because it's political outcome may prove unfavorable to them a grand jury is a swell way to go. Panelists, entirely at a prosecutors discretion, are presented with only what they want them to hear. In essence throw a case either way under the veil of secrecy behind closed doors.

Grand juries allow too much power going into the hands of politically elected prosecutorial officials. It's for these reasons grand juries shouldn't have a place in a truly just society. They should be abolished.

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