Retired FBI criminal profiler Jim Clemente gives his reaction to the lawsuit recently filed by a former Ferguson grand juror in the Michael Brown police shooting case in Ferguson, MO.
Clemente said he thinks the case – in which the ex-juror is seeking to make public details of the normally secret proceedings of the grand jury – has a viable chance of succeeding.
“I think one of the most compelling arguments this juror is making is that the prosecutor actually made public statements which misrepresented the grand jury deliberations,” he said. “He was not part of the deliberations, yet he comments on the deliberations.”
Attorney Tony Rothert - who is also the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri – is representing the St. Louis County resident who filed the lawsuit. He says the juror wants the opportunity to speak publicly about the deliberations that took place in the grand jury case, which failed to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of black teenager Michael Brown.
Clemente points out that while grand jury proceedings are intended to remain secret, the St. Louis County prosecutor in the grand jury, Bob McCulloch, make public statements about the process. “It’s supposed to be secret, right? So if he breached that secrecy, then how could he prevent the grand jurors themselves from breaching that secrecy.”
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