If if goes to trial it doesn't end pretty.

 

Care to elaborate?

I don't think there's a snowball's chance that a Boone trial jury ever would have returned a guilty verdict on any charge had this case gone to trial.

If if goes to trial it doesn't end pretty.

Why?

 

It probably wouldn't of ended pretty for her family maybe, but the grand jury got it right after seeing the evidence and video testimony etc.

 

A civil suit is totally different, different things you have to prove etc.

I don't think there's a snowball's chance that a Boone trial jury ever would have returned a guilty verdict on any charge had this case gone to trial.

 

Which in turn means the Grand Jury did exactly the right thing.

Which in turn means the Grand Jury did exactly the right thing.

Yes and no.

Yes and no.

 

Please explain?

Please explain?

End result was never in doubt. We all know that. Grand jury successfully executed its task. This is how the system works. Having said that, the tidiness of this case bothers me, especially given the manner in which the young lady was slain. Too bad an experienced trial lawyer won't get the chance to ask some tough questions of people under oath. Also would have been nice to have heard from the special prosecutor, sheriff, lead investigator after the grand jury's decision.

End result was never in doubt. We all know that. Grand jury successfully executed its task. This is how the system works. Having said that, the tidiness of this case bothers me, especially given the manner in which the young lady was slain. Too bad an experienced trial lawyer won't get the chance to ask some tough questions of people under oath. Also would have been nice to have heard from the special prosecutor, sheriff, lead investigator after the grand jury's decision.

 

Grand jury proceedings are pretty guarded and talking about them is definitely off limits if we're talking about black and white legal rules.

If if goes to trial it doesn't end pretty.

 

Gotta take up for my man John Anthony here. Going to trial can be a crapshoot. That's why prosecutors and defendants alike will take plea deals. Witnesses taking the stand. Juries can go rogue. Media attention.

 

For those of you thinking that this would just go off without a hitch at trial, why do you think that?

 

Even people who talk on here all the time have a 14 page thread on the whole thing that's full of disagreement, so letting 12 random people decide it with all kinds of variables coming into play tells me that there's a huge range of outcomes/results.

 

 

Can't speak for him, but I think John Anthony was just saying that nothing like this that goes to trial winds up ending 'pretty', it's a zero sum game that usually produces clear winners and losers.

For the fourth time I'll ask everyone...

 

What % is the girl to blame?

What % is the deputy to blame?

 

If this goes to Federal Court that's the question the jury has to answer. Then they decide on compensation.

For the fourth time I'll ask everyone...

 

What % is the girl to blame?

What % is the deputy to blame?

 

If this goes to Federal Court that's the question the jury has to answer. Then they decide on compensation.

 

I answered your question. When a cop tells you to do something (other than jump off a bridge) you do it.

 

I answered your question. When a cop tells you to do something (other than jump off a bridge) you do it.

 

So your 100% girl and 0% deputy.

 

How about the rest of you, especially the owned predicting a bloodbath in a civil trial?

So your 100% girl and 0% deputy.

 

How about the rest of you, especially the owned predicting a bloodbath in a civil trial?

 

I think the point of saying what you've interpreted as a "bloodbath" is that trials are unpredictable and often very emotional and ugly, regardless of who wins or loses. I know that's what I was trying to get at, not that I have judged either side to be a sure winner or anything like that (when I haven't even watched the video or read the news stories, etc.).

 

The point I was trying to make is that even if I'm completely innocent, I know I'm still not sleeping well knowing that it doesn't matter if I 12 random people that neither side has likely met before are going to be the ones who decide my fate.

Girl had a previous DUI, was scared to get another. This is justified. He didn't wake up and say, "Today I want to kill a teenage girl." She was scared, but she should have pulled over.

http://m.700wlw.com/media/podcast-big-one-weekends-weekends/lisa-wells-11914-25542473/

 

This is what I heard in the car last Saturday morning which is why I made my earlier comments. Her statement about them presenting his defense to the Grand jury is what I have issue with. If there are any keybooard attorneys out there who can refute this and her comments I'd like to hear it.