Ferguson Prosecutor Lied. Judge Never Agreed to Release Grand Jury Records if there is No Indictment

Racist Suspect Prosecutor Full of Deception. From [HERE] The wait continues for the mostly white St. Louis County grand jury decision in the Michael Brown shooting case, but on Sunday KSDK-TV learned that the evidence the panel is hearing may not be released after all.

If white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson is indicted in the shooting death of Brown, evidence presented to the grand jury would not be released because it would be used during the trial. In an interview a few weeks ago, St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch said the judge agreed that the records would be made public if there is no indictment.

"If there is not an indictment returned in any case, then the case is closed and the records are closed. Unless the judge orders that they be opened. So in this case, we have asked the judge if there is no indictment returned, and no charge on anything, we have asked the judge, and she has agreed, that the records will be made public," McCulloch said.

But Sunday, St. Louis County Director of Judicial Administration Paul Fox released a statement saying that St. Louis County Circuit "Judge Whittington has entered no such order or made no such agreement."

According to the letter "If the Grand Jury returns a no true bill, the Judge anticipates the Court will receive requests for Grand Jury records. Some of those requests will require the Court to analyze the need for maintaining secrecy of the records with the need for public disclosure of the records.

The Court had done no such analysis. In order to analyze the need for maintaining secrecy, the Court will need information it does not have. It does not know the names of the witnesses who have testified before the Grand Jury and it has not heard the testimony or read transcriptions of testimony.   The Court has not seen documents or material presented to the Grand Jury.

The Court awaits the decision of the Grand Jury. The Court will thereafter be guided by the law in its response to requests for Grand Jury records. The quote attributed to me in the Post-Dispatch this morning is not accurate." [MORE]