http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/25/1347320/-The-questions-no-one-asked-St-Louis-prosecutor-Bob-McCulloch?detail=facebook
First, instead of asking McCulloch the vote breakdown, they might have asked him this:
Question: How many charges was the jury asked to consider, and how
many would have needed to vote against any charge to keep it from
becoming a "true bill" of indictment?
Answer: Infinite, and four
Question: How many police officers have been indicted in shooting
incidents since Bob McCulloch became prosecutor way back in 1991?
Answer: None
McCulloch is the son of a police officer who was shot in the line of
duty. In his 24 years as prosecutor, he has never recommended charges
against any police officer. How did that happen? It happened in large
part because these cases are not handled like other cases.
Question: Had this been a completely different sort of incident, one
in which an officer had been killed, would you have instructed the jury
in the same way?
Answer: Oh, hell no.
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