[LINK] "Ferguson grand juror sues prosecutor"

[rfmcdonald]

I will be very interested to see what comes of this. From Al Jazeera:

A member of the grand jury that declined to indict police officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in August sued the prosecutor in the case Monday, accusing him of mischaracterizing the grand jury proceedings.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed the lawsuit in federal court against St. Louis County prosecutor Robert McCulloch on behalf of an unnamed juror, identified only as “Grand Juror Doe,” who wants to speak about the investigation but would be in violation of Missouri law by doing so.

"Right now there are only 12 people who can't talk about the evidence out there," ACLU attorney Tony Rothert said. "The people who know the most — those 12 people are sworn to secrecy. What (the grand juror) wants is to be able to be part of the conversation."

The lawsuit questions McCulloch's characterization that "all grand jurors believed that there was no support for any charges" against officer Wilson, who shot Brown on August 9 and has since resigned from the police department.

The suit also claims that evidence was presented to the grand jury in a manner markedly different than in previous cases heard by the same grand jury, with the “insinuation” that Brown was the “wrongdoer” rather than Wilson.

Additionally, the suit claims the prosecutor's office presented applicable laws to grand jurors "in a muddled and untimely manner," unlike presentations in other cases.