Less than 24 hours after the Ferguson grand jury transcripts were released last month, I tweeted my disgust with Witness 40, a woman whose testimony neatly conformed to police officer Darren Wilson’s in the shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown, and who played fast and loose with the N word:
Creepiest witness intv so far in #Ferguson file: "need to understand Black race better so I stop calling them n***" http://t.co/LiEzZ1Cp07
— Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) November 25, 2014
What on earth?
Witness 40 is a self-proclaimed racist
Witness 40, Sandra McElroy, journaled – if we are to believe her, and I don’t, about anything – that she witnessed the shooting of Mike Brown because she had driven, all alone, over to Ferguson on that Sunday afternoon in August because she’s a racist and wanted to mingle with inner-city black folks in order to stop being racist.
But it seems her psychological experiment didn’t succeed. Shortly after Mike Brown was shot dead and lay in the street for four hours, generating justifiable community outrage, she posted on Facebook about the upset community members:
“They need to kill the fucking [N word]. It is like an ape fest.”[1]
So let’s be very clear here. Witness 40 is plainly a racist, as she herself admits in her grand jury testimony, which I have now read in its entirety. “It is racist,” she concedes regarding that Facebook post.[2]
And McElroy has a history of this type of in-your-face hatred. Like the time in 2005 when her bankruptcy lawyer had to withdraw because of McElroy’s “racial slurs” toward her secretary. Or her fondness for referring to African Americans as “apes” or “monkeys” on her YouTube page.
I could go on, but it’s all contained in the The Smoking Gun’s report. Kudos to them for digging into court records and unearthing this damning information. Information that could easily have been obtained by police and prosecutors interested in getting to the truth, had any existed in this case.
Witness 40 is a well-documented liar
McElroy’s other major problem is dishonesty. She has multiple check fraud felony convictions, which constitute crimes of moral turpitude — meaning a person has been found to be a liar.
There’s also the 2007 incident where she inserted herself improbably into another prominent, media-covered crime story, saying she’d seen a missing child with his kidnapper. After investigating her, the police in that case said:
“We have found that this story is a complete fabrication.”
Those are important background incidents, but in this very case involving Mike Brown and Darren Wilson she’s also shown herself to be an out-and-out liar.
McElroy admits to lying to federal agents and lying under oath
Preposterously, McElroy first told the FBI investigator that she decided spontaneously on the morning of August 9 to drive 30 miles to visit an old high school friend whom she hadn’t seen in 26 years. Did she call her friend to say she was coming? No. Email her? No. Facebook message her? No. Tell anyone else? No. Bring her cell phone? No. McElroy, a 45-year-old mother of five, didn’t tell a soul. Even when she supposedly got lost, she didn’t call her friend to ask for directions.
Then, presto! McElroy saw the encounter between Brown and Wilson unfold right before her eyes, she says. Afterwards, she said she drove away via a route that FBI investigators pointed out was physically impossible.
McElroy admits that yes, before speaking with the FBI she did read a bunch of news articles online. Unsurprisingly, her story neatly conformed to Darren Wilson’s by-then-publicly-available story, especially her account that Mike Brown charged him like a football player, forcing Wilson to fire those fatal shots.
The grand jury broke for the afternoon halfway through McElroy’s testimony. When she returned a few weeks later, she offered up — for the first time — the obviously concocted, after-the-fact “journal” page.
In this same return testimony, she admitted that the story about visiting a friend was a falsehood. Her account of seeing the beginning of the encounter between Wilson and Brown at the police car was also not true. Other big chunks of her story were things she probably learned on the Internet. So, everything she said to the FBI and to the grand jury under oath was invented.
After that, the prosecutors followed the lead of the grand jurors, who lit into McElroy for her bigotry, and asked her a series of tough questions.
We can’t know whether any grand jurors relied on McElroy’s testimony when making their decision, but certainly some in the media have pointed to her account when justifying the decision not to indict.
* * *
Friends, when people debate this case and say witnesses supported Darren Wilson’s version of events, please ask them which witnesses they are talking about. McElroy, the admitted racist and known liar? Or Witness 10, who first claimed to have seen the encounter from nearly a football field’s distance away, then halved the distance in subsequent testimony?
I’ve been passionate about this case from the beginning after watching many credible members of the community say publicly that Mike Brown was shot with his hands in the air, in the universal symbol of surrender.
Witnesses like business-owner Tiffany Mitchell who had the courage to speak on camera, carefully limiting herself to commenting only on what she remembered, remaining consistent in repeated interviews. Or the construction worker who was captured on camera moments after the shooting, re-enacting the shooting of Brown with his hands up, exclaiming, “he had his fucking hands in the air!”
It’s not surprising that some witnesses testified otherwise. What is so deeply disturbing is how poor their credibility is, that McElroy was put on the stand at all, and that prosecutor Bob McCulloch trumpeted their accounts that Brown charged at Wilson in the statement announcing no indictment.
Why is McElroy not being prosecuted for lying to federal agents and committing perjury?
To the next reporter who gets a shot at Bob McCulloch, please ask: “And the reason McElroy is not being prosecuted for lying to federal agents and perjury is …?”
McElroy admitted that she lied about material parts of her testimony under oath. You, Mr. McCulloch, are being handed these facts on a silver platter. What more could you possibly need?
Or is this going to be another case of no indictment just because you don’t want to go there, regardless of the law? Does she get a pass just because? Or because charging her with perjury slops mud on your office as well?
Mr. McCulloch, you told the grand jurors on the record at the outset that this case was different. And now we see just how different it was. Someone with McElroy’s criminal and personal history would never have testified at any other grand jury or trial.
Mr. McCulloch, why did you allow your assistants to put McElroy on the stand? Were they so incompetent that they failed to see her for the hate-filled confabulator she is? Why did your office not do a simple court records check on her?
Or did they, or you, suborn perjury[3] (a felony)?
- [1] Sandra McElroy’s October 23, 2014 grand jury testimony, p. 177.
- [2] Sandra McElroy’s October 23, 2014 grand jury testimony, p. 182.
- [3] Suborn perjury: The crime of encouraging or persuading someone to commit perjury
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49 comments
Gloria Holloway
I was attacked ,my car damage and the magisterial district Court judge dismissed my case against the women.I hire a black female attorney and paid her two thousand dollar retainer fee .She resigned from my case four days before my court date.She knew when she took my money she was not going to render the service I paid for. This judge has a website stating that he is a full time Magisterial district judge and if you need legal consultation he is available evening hours or weekends.this women bragged that this judge was also her attorney , used his friend to sit in court for him. I was socked to find out about this.Pennsylvania is no better than Ferguson.Everybody cover for each other.Family members working in the same jobs and that is how it is possible to unjustly dismiss cases.the justice system need to be fixed.Some serious changes need to be made.
czarlimbaugh
Thanks Lisa,
My greater concern was the Police Investigator who determined it was unnecessary to photo officer Wilsons supposed facial injuries, or to gather evidence at the crime scene.
dave
damn i should have read a little further down the comments as doctrinator puts a little more detail to the obvious bull s@#$ that the jury weeded thru to come to the only possible decision to not bring wilson to trial as is overwhelming by physical evidence alone.
Im worried about our country.
and p.s. berkely mo. and evidently ferguson has always been a place where yoou need to be cautious while walkin around site seeing as you might be robbed especially if disguised as a law abiding citizen especially if you are of the caucasion minority
dave
well put but doesnt make that much difference the physical evidence is enuf to see that mr brown was not walking back to the officer to surrender or else he would not have slid as far as he did or o you think the blood tracks were fabricated also,
datguy
@daughter76 it's video of two construction workers yelling "he had his hands up". Why are you blinding yourself?
daughter76
Why be so concerned about this woman's truthfulness or the fact that she's a racist---the liar that started the myth of Brown having his hands up at the time of the shooting was rewarded by being given a job instead of a jail cell---don't be hypocrites.
Mickey
If Mike Brown was me he wouldn't have robbed a convenience story, that's for sure.
Mickey
The exact words of the Ku Klux Klan and Adolph Hitler.
Ironic, don't you think?
Barry Katz
I used to think justice like in the book, To Kill a Mockingbird was history. Well it's alive and well in the south. Nationwide, the grand jury system seems systematically flawed. Needs to be revamped using independent prosecutors not affiliated with the law enforcement or with City Attorney.
richard
The prosecutor presented every piece of evidence. He asked the grand jury to hear everything and sort it out themselves. And when it was over, this grand jury decided not to send the officer to trial. He could have easily picked out every witness that seemed credible and suppressed the rest. But had he suppressed 1 white witness and 1 black witness, I suspect that everyone would be foaming at the mouth because evidence was withheld. No matter what he did, he was going to be crucified regardless unless the grand jury came back with an indictment. So he aired on the side of caution a and presented everything. I'm surprised we didn't hear anything about saucer shaped flying objects and anal probes. My guess is that the black grand jurors are racist because they didn't send this officer straight to jail without passing go. Bankrupt the criminal courts, stop committing crime. They depend on your probation fees.
Undoctrinator
Presuming everything you write about this woman is true, it sounds like she's a racist liar. Begging the questions, why was she allowed to testify, was she the only racist liar, was some grand conspiracy afoot, and, most importantly, did it have an impact on the outcome of the case.
Why she was allowed to testify has been made abundantly clear. In this very controversial case, the DA wasn't holding anything back. From either side. Wisely, he didn't want anyone claiming after the fact that they were not allowed to testify. And no one has. Thank goodness. The outrage that would have produced would have been like throwing gasoline on a fire. So everyone claiming to be a witness was allowed to speak. A GREAT decision by the DA.
Were there other bald-faced racist lairs? It surely seems like it. And based on the facts that the physical evidence and other corroborated testimony made their claims obviously false, they were black, and they showed absolute hatred for a white cop, they were black racists.
As to whether there was a conspiracy by a racist, white DA - an impossibility for a Democrat - there doesn't seem to be so. First of all, as you should from your experience know, the simplest explanation is usually correct, and conspiracies, the size of which would be large in this case, are very hard to conceal.
Furthermore, there are no credible claims of conspiracy and there was certainly a sufficiently large number of tenacious reporters on the case who, like you, would have loved to bust this one open. Whether for their love for the truth or their desire for fame, glory and riches.
And of course, many of them, like you - and countless others - have poured over both the testimony and the evidence and come up with insufficient evidence to make such an extremely serious charge. Unless, of course, a paragraph of your piece was suspiciously omitted.
It is often said that sunlight is the best disinfectant, and in this case, the DA, clearly a more experienced and reasonable attorney than you, concluded that the best course in this case was, to mix metaphors, to put all the cards on the table, leave no stone unturned, and just let it all hang out. You get the drift.
And finally, and most importantly, would having excluded her have changed the outcome. The question that a court of appeals would ask were an objection such as yours raised. A point that you, as an experienced attorney, must know. And here, it clearly would not have. She thoroughly discredited herself. As did other witnesses. And the grand jurors are free to weigh the evidence as they see fit. As is the case with all juries.
And while to you the discovery of this fact is as startling as might be the discovery of life on another planet, it is as obvious to your readers, as it undoubtedly was to the grand jurors, as obvious as the rising sun. Surely if you think we are sufficiently astute to glean, solely from your telling, that this woman was a racist liar, you must accept also that the grand jury seeing this nut before their eyes could figure that out as well, and give her testimony the weight it deserves. Unless of course you think that, in anticipation of just such a case, this grand jury was selected - 6 months prior - for the particular stupidity. In which case you should take your seat next to witness number 40.
So what, then, could have motivated you to take time out from your busy day, foregoing billable hours, to produce this nothingburger? Do you actually think that you've discovered a smoking gun? If so, potential future clients beware. Are you an opponent of the grand jury system, per se? If so, if this is the "evidence" you muster to build your case against it, the explanation for your surplus of hours comes clear. Or are you just a crusader, out to stomp out racism, injustice, and a corrupt justice system wherever you find it? Which is to say, everywhere. If so, you're not just a nut, you're an evil nut. Now, I usually wouldn't stoop to calling names, but since the title of your piece shows that you're not squeamish about the practice, I figured, what the heck!
Whatever your motivation, you've failed miserably to make either a case or a point. Unless that comes out in part 2. Or is it simply to show that liars and racists sometimes testify before grand juries? Or even petit juries! Oh, say it isn't so.
And minimizing the menace of the six-foot four inch 300 pound Mr. Brown, the strong-arm robber, assaulter of a police officer and owner of a not-insignificant criminal record by referring to him as an "unarmed teen" simply lays bare to anyone who knows anything about this case how disingenuous you are.
So if you're auditioning to be the next Gloria Alred, I doubt you'll get the part, otherwise, to borrow a phrase, sell crazy somewhere else, we're all stocked up here.
DougH2
White Republicans fought to the freedom of slaves. However, Democrats were the Conservative party then. In fact, the genesis of Conservatism was the struggle for states' right to continue slavery. They wanted to "conserve" their right to govern themselves as free and independent states and not be told what to do by the federal government.
Also, they resented the Constitution. That document transitioned American from a "friendship of states" as stated in the original founding document, the Articles of Confederation, to a country governed by a strong central government. That Liberal document, the Constitution, and how it came into being was the catalyst for the Civil War. Read Jefferson Davis' - The Rise of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America. The first chapter tells the story of how the Constitution came about and how it contributed to rise of the Confederacy. The very name Confederacy come from the regressive nature of their politics. They wanted to regress from a Constitutional Democracy back to a Confederation of States.
kelsoe
That's funny I only hear racist things from African American people these days but white people are always the big main villain that guy was a criminal who attacked a police officer he's dead and that is good one less criminal to worry about I can't believe you people support criminals this way and you wonder why people look at you different wake up
Izzy
When Lisa Bloom writes something, I throw 90% out. She is just like her momma, Gloria Allred.
JosephAJ
"Witness 40 ..." is the one article which gave me cause to subscribe to NakedLaw. It revealed the error of omission by the media. The unintended amusement by some of the commentors will also contribute to keeping me interested. Especially humorous are the submissions by the "trolls-are-us" crowd. I love a circus!
black man
Black people are not racist we just have an enemy that is oppressing us.
How would you feel?
Shirley
@Really.. on the contrary, we do not need to do away with the grand jury trials. They are more helpful then most people would ever imagine. I can say with knowledge of having lost a son at the age of 18. There was never any justice in his case. I will add the cases are not similar, but the justice system in selective. My son was killed when a person ran a stop sign and forced him into oncoming traffic which was a semi slowing to make a left hand turn. There was no field testing or blood draws to see if this man was on any drugs, alcohol. But from everything he was saying as my son laid dying in his truck, showed this man had no compassion. He was yelling at my son how he wanted my son to get out of his truck so he could beat the hell out of him. I live in an area that "The Good Ole Boys society" is alive and well. The PA said my sons case was not worth prosecuting because in his mind everyone runs a stop sign and could place themselves in his shoes. He was given a ticket for $150.00 and never had to go to court. Yet my son had a full ride scholarship for college and a lifetime scholarship for academic achievements. The simple fact that this man was never charged with more than a misdemeanor offence means there were no points on his license. My Sentence.. A Life sentence without my son. There were several witness to this collision, all corroborated the same events as shown and retrieved from the black box in my sons truck. But in the End.. My Son is still gone. Had there been a grand jury he would have been sent to jail. There are always two sides to every coin and 3 sides to every story. I did not reveal any of this for Pity, It gave me strength to fight for Positive changes... and some of them have been made.
Tommie T
Good point. And while they are prosecuting the "racist liar" they should also prosecute the witnesses who portrayed the cop as a Bolshevik executioner. Commanding MB to Bao Down on his hands and knees and then double-tapping him.
jimc
Why is McElroy not being prosecuted for lying to federal agents and committing perjury?
Cited from: Witness 40 is a racist liar. Why did the Ferguson prosecutors have her testify? http://nakedlaw.avvo.com/lisa-bloom/witness-40-racist-liar-why-ferguson-prosecutors-had-her-testify.html#ixzz3NenG8rBk
Because they would have to then prosecute all the black racist liars who committed perjury during the same investigation. Doh!
Binder
Noj - the witness did not witness the shooting! What reason could there possibly be for her testimony?
Jim
Criminal gets shot by cop.
Quite the craziness
We are all on this planet together
No victims Work it out
Ted
um. Moot point. There were many many other eye witnesses that corroborated wilsons account.
In fact I suspect most were black.
Yaakov
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown
DNA evidence[edit]
According to the detective that performed tests on Wilson's gun, he had to decide whether to perform a DNA test or dust for fingerprints, because only one test can be performed without affecting the other.[79] Wilson’s DNA was not found under Brown's fingernails or on his right hand, but was found on Brown’s left palm. Brown's DNA was found on the left thigh of Wilson’s pants, on the gun, and on the inside driver’s door handle of Wilson's police SUV,[80] the result of Brown's blood spilled staining Wilson's pants and the door handle.[81] The detective performing the DNA tests on the gun said that he found the gun stored in an unsealed envelope, contrary to the evidence-handling process he was accustomed to.[79]
Documents released after the grand jury proceedings show that Wilson washed blood from his hands and checked his own gun into an evidence bag, both of which were described by media outlets as unorthodox procedures.[82][83]
Dr. Michael Graham, the St. Louis medical examiner, said blood was found on Wilson's gun and inside the car, and tissue from Brown was found on the exterior of the driver's side of Wilson's vehicle, both of which were consistent with a struggle at that location. According to Judy Melinek, a San Franciscan pathologist, the official autopsy, which stated Brown's hand had foreign matter consistent with a gun discharge on it, supported Wilson's testimony that Brown was reaching for the weapon,[84] or indicating the gun was inches away from Brown's hand when it went off.[80]
Yaakov
What is this with demonizing white people. Who freed the slaves?? White Republicans freed the slaves. Check your history. There were bad whites and good whites. SOme of whom put their lives on the line to save black people.
Know it is my understanding their were 8 witnesses that corroborated Wilson's story. So you have partially discounted one and totally discredited another. What about the other 6?? And what about the ballistic evidence?
And what about the fact this guy was a slime bag that didnt care about anyone but himself, took what he wanted from who he wanted. Look at the family. The brother says burn this bitch down? Its a family of slime bags. So at the end of the day, why are we still talking about this? Lets talk about Garner instead. At least noone will argue about the policemans job in the recent Crown Heights case since it was all well videotaped.
Jason
Stop profiting from black tragedy and crime. Go move to the low class slums of America and then talk or write about it, but not from the comfort of your upper class desk.
Filth and shame on CNN for profiteering and hypocrisy.
David
The Irony is this miserable attempt at journalism from a person who is more capable of being a defense witness than a seeker of justice or the one thing that escapes her profession all together, Truth.
Edward smith
The prosecutor made a decision to present all those claiming to have witnessed the episode. This included the numerous blacks who did not actually witness the incident, but who reported damning allegations against the police officer. These black witnesses who later recanted or were shown to not have possibly seen the confrontation set the climate that damned the officer from day 1. All the listers and haters, black and white, who gave false testimony should be prosecuted, not just the ones that this biased lawyer criticizes.
Tom Goffnett
Thank you so very much for writing at a level the layman can understand. I really enjoy your comments. I've subscribed to your blog and I'm looking forward to reading it.
DSU
Also, Lisa as a legal professional you should understand that there's no legal merit to comparing credibility of witnesses without the objective measure of evidence available. You compare claims made by witnesses to evidence, not to claims made by other witnesses.
That would be asinine and a huge waste of time if evidence exists. And in this case there's plenty of it available.
DSU
You can't be so selective with your accusation of perjury Lisa.
If you charge Witness 40 you will also have to charge 16, 35, & 37 who also admit to partial or full perjury in testimony. 16 outright admits to not being there are is reporting what her boyfriend saw in his place.
41, 42, & 57 admit to lying to police or FBI in statements and/or in later testimony. So their charge would be different. Those that lied to FBI would be brought up on charges in Federal court for lying to Federal Officials. The rest for Filing False Police Reports if proven.
It's clear you haven't read enough of the public record regarding this case.
http://i.imgur.com/k4Mlvya.png
Bob
You actually come off as the one who is trying to bend the truth.
really
These coments are really crazy.Read the report she Lied under Oath. .As tax payers we want our laws to be upheld to the highest standards yellow brown pink or blue.We need to do away with the "Grand Jury" process. What if mike brown was you?
the truth please
We are clearly still living amongst devils. It doesn't surprise me when i simply do the math and realize that the grandchildren children of actual slave holders may still be alive. There is no denying factual evidence of racism. These replies aren't writing themselves. One thing white America cannot stop, genetics. Cdc knows exactly when your time is up. Ha, God knows your heart as well. Enjoy this world, your soul will not fair so well. Keep it up. We shall redeem, we shall overcome....... Burn baby burn
rgregory
You don't have the power nor the numbers..not even remotely close. Anarchy is never going to fly. Whatyou have is a vast majority that goes on with their lives and systemacally gets bored with the ruckus until it eventually runs its inevitable course.
rgregory
So, why are we talking about only one witness that lied? What about Mike Brown being on his knees hands up and shot in the back? This was forensically proven to be a lie and yet was repeated many times on and off the grand jury stand. All those that lied should beprosecuted
TR
Sorry you're from Chicago and you call someone else a racist? Please, "black lives matter is code word for we are racist and black lives are the only lives that matter to us" Chicago Highest murder rate, teen pregnancy rate, high school drop out rate, black jobless rate and most corrupt LEAST honest, racist politicians in history including the one occupying the white house. And the sad part is you just keep electing them. Michael Brown was a criminal and on drugs he died via DARWIN attack an armed cop, you die. Wilson deserves a medal for cleaning up the streets even if he was black he did what he had to, to survive.
Jake
In response to Noj. This woman wasn't even at the scene. McElroy's story sounded like the "truth" according to Wilson's story because she based her lies around what had come out in the news over the few weeks between her standing as a witness and the actual event taking place.
You sound like you are maybe a little biased based on the caps, angry wording, and use of words like "thug". Presenting facts about how awful this woman was is completely reasonable and btw, there is a decent chance this case will come up again with a new Grand Jury specifically because of McElroy.
When you have someone come in and lie about the case to push a narrative that the police want to push you have to question the judicial process.
John Brown
I'd be frustrated if my liars were being exposed too.
Leslie
OMG!! This is crazy how nobody sees what has really happened in America. We have the power & the numbers!! This is not a problem that is going to be solved by one law-it's going to take a whole system overhaul that goes back to when Martin Luther King was murdered by FBI & Americans were lied to. Not only did the Old School White Man Government not like the power the blacks were showing back then- but they also tried to keep all women down-especially the white woman. My dream is- Change gonna come in 2015 & their power will be over. Women have to take power over the USA- if we are going to live a quality life with our Kids, Grandkids, Great Grandkids etc... And now a man has North Korea wanting to kill us. This is ridiculous!!!
Pastor Russ
Well that's mighty racist of you. You thing that a thug who is attempting to take the gun away from a cop and beating on the cop is somehow acceptable. Your justification is that the thug is black and therefore within his rights to beat and shot the cop with his own gun. Racism is a sickness and you are infected with the worst ebola strain of racism.
Pastor Russ
There is nothing racist about shooting someone who fighting to take your gun from you and use it on you. There is nothing racist about being punched in the face by the criminal who is trying to take your gun from you. However, it is racist to support the actions of a criminal because of the color of his skin.
You support the criminals actions because you yourself are most likely a criminal and racist .
Pastor Russ
So she is a "WHITE Racist and liar" just like al sharpton is a "BLACK Racist and liar". And your point????
Is one "Racist liar" better than another "Racist liar"?
We need to condemn all such behavior and stop treating criminals [michael brown] as though they are saints. Woe to those who call good evil and evil good.
Joe
Agree 100% about witness 40. What does this have to do about sports?
Candice
It is no surprise that blatant racism is swept under the rug. You idiots commenting don't even understand the point the author is making. The article is talking about the credibility of the certain witness and her prejudice which shows conflict of interest. Don't run around the internet pointing fingers of judgment when you don't even read the actual article!
Darryl Fox
@ Noj
Darryl Fox
Like sabotaging the case? Maybe YOU aren't as smart as you think YOU are...ILMFAO
Darryl Fox
When prosecutors don't want to prosecute someone they bring it before a Grand Jury and then sabotage the case...That way they "avoid" responsibility...Q.E.D...This is why England jettisoned the Grand Jury 80 years ago...
Chicagoan
You ma'am sound just as racist as the rest of them. You need to be on some kind of medicine if you think that "cop" did what as right.
Noj
Maybe you're just not as smart as you think you are. *MAYBE* the prosecutor had a REASON to call, and then discredit, the witness. We ARE talking about a grand jury here. He could have called his mom to talk about what donuts she prefers. It's not a court of law, as you well know (or I hope you well know). Now perhaps there was a seedy conspiracy taking root. Or perhaps, after deciding to put **ALL** the information he had in front of the grand jury, he decided to not withhold some. Or MAYBE, just MAYBE her story coincided with the actual TRUTH and, as such, they failed to do a complete background check of everything after her kindergarten transcripts.
Does this woman SOUND mentally ill? You betcha. But when a LIE matches the truth it sometimes SEEMS like the truth.
SO, Miss I-Never-Heard-of-Your-Website-Until-Now-Blogger, while I'm sure you WANT to be some superstar lawyer with a clever question for everything, I'd suggest that the TRUTH is, in a court of law sense, the BEST story and since every stitch of evidence failed to produce even the DESIRE to indict, maybe you're on the wrong side of right in this case. Seems to me that every CREDIBLE witness has the big thug breaking the law, disregarding and then dis-obeying the police, and then finally making aggressive movements towards the police. Even his little friend that he was dragging into this mess backed this version up. Stop stirring the pot. Supper is done.