The Breonna Taylor decision

I am very happy to say that I am not a lawyer. I note that as far as I have been able to find on the informational sites I frequent -- be they corporate media, magazines and blogs, whatever -- I have not found any lawyers who have yet stepped forward to offer a critique of the decision not to prosecute police officers in the death of Breonna Taylor. Paul Campos, for example,has chosen to write about something else today -- agreed, probably something even more important -- but still.We may yet see some legal eagle commentary, but in the meantime I ' m going to speculate that they don ' t want to speak the truth and be taken the wrong way. Here ' s how it seems to me, not as a lawyer but as a social scientist who understands a little bit about the law. The fact is it would be very difficult to prosecute those police, and very unlikely they would be convicted. The grand jury would not indict, but I suspect if they had a judge would have dismissed the case without a trial. The Attorney General, in other words, had no choice.That does not mean, however, that there is any moral justification in the delta quadrant of the galaxy for this young woman to have been killed. That is a different question, although it should not be, in other words the problem here is with the law. And it begins with the " drugs " exception to the Fourth Amendment, and logically prior to that the War on [some people who use some] drugs. This created the possibility for a no-knock warrant in the first place. ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - Category: American Health Source Type: blogs