Current Events > NY Times on Daniel Prude grand jury transcript

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Please explain how protections for police constrained the attorney general to present the defense's case for the grand jury. I don't get it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/22/nyregion/daniel-prude-death-letitia-james.html
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Karen Friedman Agnifilo, a former high-ranking official in the Manhattan district attorneys office, defended Ms. James, saying the attorney general was constrained in her ability to prosecute the Rochester officers because of the broad legal protections provided to the police.
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All she had to do was her job = presenting the case for indictment.

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Is there a reason for keeping grand jury transcripts from the public other than protecting prosecutors who sabotage the indictment? I can see that witnesses should not be named and quoted but it should be possible to summarize the proceedings to hold the attorney general accountable.


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CobraGT posted...

Is there a reason for keeping grand jury transcripts from the public other than protecting prosecutors who sabotage the indictment?

Don't want to "foul" the petit jury, I guess...

Questionmarktarius posted...

Don't want to "foul" the petit jury, I guess...

Don't want to reveal the fouling attorney general.

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My idea is that grand jurors grade each witness and argument as

compelling, neutral, confusing/not credible

and that these grades be released in order to hold the prosecution accountable. The transcript can be kept secret.

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