Could someone explain this to me? Michael Vick admits that he murdered 6-8 dogs while participating in dog fighting. This all under oath in Federal court documents. The district attorney for Surry County, Virginia then goes to the grand jury and it hands down an indictment on Vick for only one count of killing dogs and one count of promoting dogfights. What happened to the other co-defendants who also offered testimony under oath(and accepted by the court) that they killed dogs. What more does a DA need?
The grand jury works as sort of a middle man between the prosecutor and the community itself. It is designed to stop overzealous prosecuters. The prosecutor gathers his evidence and then brings it in front of a grand jury to determine if there is probable cause. It is not the grand juries job to determine the guilt or innocence of a defendant. Finding that there is probable cause a crime has been committed is a very low burden to prove. Presenting just a copy of the signed plea bargain by Vick would have been overwhelming evidence of probable cause. In fact, it’d be enough to convict him.
It is impossible to assume that the grand jury was presented with the evidence we already know and still arrived at only a 2 count indictment - only one for killing of dogs. This DA should be fired immediately. He can not handle his job and as this has shown, can not prosecute even when a defendant admits to the crime, has 6 co-defendants agreeing with the events, and all while being under oath and in writing.
I find this all very interesting. When Michael Vick decided to plead out to federal charges last month there were no stipulations to his plea bargain that the state would agree not to press charges as well. His lawyers had to of informed him that if he admitted to dogfighting that the state of Virginia would then have a slam dunk case. Maybe Vick and his attorneys rolled the dice and assumed Pointdexter was so unbelievable incompetent that he would not be successful in obtaining an indictment.
Or there are other things going on down in Surry County, Virginia…
Technorati Tags: Crime, Current Events, Michael Vick, NFL, Law
Today Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will speak at Columbia University as part of the Universities foriegn leaders and history courses. The big three news stations are all covering this lie. The chyrons are:
MSNBC: BREAKING NEWS: “IRANIAN PRESIDENT WILL SPEAK AT COLUMBIA UNIV. ANY MINUTE NOW”
CNN: HAPPENING NOW: “IRANIAN PRESIDENT TO SPEAK AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SHORTLY”
FOX NEWS: AWAITING CONTROVERSIAL SPEECH FROM IRAN’S PRESIDENT AT COLUMBIA UNIV.”
Fox adds it’s own spin on the story. They feel the need to report the story and also tell us they obviously have their own views on the speech happening. See: Some People Say.
While MSNBC and CNN have chosen to go live with Columbia Univ. President Lee Bollinger, Fox News has chosen to show a split screen. Half showing a muted live shot of the speech and the other half a debate with of whether Osama Bin Laden should be allowed to appear and speak in America as well. Clearly, that comparison is ridiculous. Not only is Osama Bin Laden not a major political leader(or a political leader of any kind for that matter) but he is also a wanted man.
Or does it have more to do with the fact that Fox News is the only national news agency not to be granted an interview itself with the leader? Anderson Cooper for CNN, Brian Williams for NBC, and Mike Wallace for CBS were granted interviews late last year.
How does Emmitt Smith keep his job with ESPN? First off, the guy doesn’t know english. Most importantly he doesn’t know football - or maybe just doesn’t watch it?
Chris Berman: Who’s going to stay undefeated this week?
Emmitt Smith: I am going to have to go with the Green Bay Packers..
Chris Berman: ..and who’s going to drop to 0-3?
Emmitt Smith: I’m going to stick with the same game..I think the Chargers will go 0-3.
Chris Berman: Actually, they won the first one.
Technorati Tags: Emmitt Smith, ESPN, Media, NFL, Steve Berman
Is Green Bay’s hard rock station WZOR 94.7 “The Razor” on it’s way out the door? Rumors have the format changing at 9:47am at the start of the fall book. Starting with 947 commercial free songs. Brian Davis on afternoons? Lia syndication at night. If this is true this would be a major blow to Wisconsin’s rock radio. It would appear WJJO is the last of the hard rock stations to be standing..
