The grand juror does have grounds to be concerned that they were intentionally misled. Perhaps assuming that the grand jurors couldn’t beg to differ, McCulloch has recently openly admitted that he knew some of the “witnesses” that he allowed to testify during the hearing were lying. The most egregious one, who is referred to as “Witness 40,” was exposed as having been a pro-cop, possibly mentally ill woman who apparently concocted her entire testimony based on what she’d heard on the news and what she felt would help Darren Wilson get off. The grand jury didn’t know any of that – at the time of the hearing, she was touted as one of the defense’s star witnesses because she “miraculously” corroborated almost all of Darren Wilson’s defenses. The crime-focused website The Smoking Gun, among many others, worked tirelessly and finally exposed “Witness 40″ – identified as Sandra McElroy – as a fraud who believed it was her mission to help Darren Wilson. In the weeks after Brown’s shooting–but before she contacted police–McElroy used her Facebook account to comment on the case. On August 15, she “liked’ a Facebook comment reporting that Johnson had admitted that he and Brown stole cigars before the confrontation with Wilson. On August 17, a Facebook commenter wrote that Johnson and others should be arrested for inciting riots and giving false statements to police in connection with their claims that Brown had his hands up when shot by Wilson. “The report and autopsy are in so YES they were false,” McElroy wrote of the “hands-up” claims. This appears to be an odd comment from someone who claims to have been present during the shooting. In response to the posting of a news report about a rally in support of Wilson, McElroy wrote on August 17, “Prayers, support God Bless Officer Wilson.” If McCulloch simply didn’t know about the troubling lack of credibility with the defense’s star witness he would just be incompetent, but since the trial he has suggested something much more unforgivable: complicity.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 02:51:10 +0000
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