The grand jury that declined to indict Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown took its cues from the prosecutor, Bob McCulloch, who steered jurors to the correct conclusion that the case evidence supported Wilson, a former prosecutor told
Newsmax TV on Tuesday.
"The DA made the right call here," defense lawyer and ex-prosecutor George Parry told "MidPoint" host Ed Berliner, referring to McCulloch, the St. Louis County chief prosecuting attorney, who led the three-month grand jury probe into a killing that inflamed racial tensions in the United States.
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"He's trying to say that it was the grand jury's call, but the fact of the matter is, a grand jury pretty much is going to do whatever the prosecutor tells them to do," said Parry. "He made the right call. The grand jury made the right call. There's no basis for bringing any kind of criminal charge against officer Wilson."
Although Brown, 18, was not armed when Wilson shot him repeatedly in their Aug. 9 confrontation, Parry said unequivocally, "The physical evidence — the results of the autopsy report, in particular, and the DNA and blood evidence at the scene — fully support officer Wilson's version of events that his use of deadly force was fully justified."
Parry said that he saw no discrepancies
between Wilson's account — of a fistfight with Brown through the window of his police cruiser followed by a street confrontation in which Brown charged — and the case evidence, including transcripts McCulloch released on Monday.
Wilson "tells a very consistent story . . . fully supported by the physical evidence," said Parry.
Parry also commented on Wilson's testimony that he was frightened during the encounter.
"There's a great deal of fear," he said, for officers in deadly-force encounters, "and he had every reason to be scared."
"Television has misled people into thinking that once you shoot someone with a firearm, that person goes down," said Parry. "I've handled scores and scores of cases where people have been shot in the heart, have been shot in the brain — they've been able to run for three and four blocks and continue inflicting harm well after they've been shot."
He said the Brown-Wilson encounter demonstrated "that you can shoot someone again and again and again, and they can continue to keep coming. You have a decedent [Brown] here who was 6 foot 4 inches and 300 pounds who had attacked the police officer. Of course he was scared."
Parry said he also sees no grounds for a federal civil rights investigation of Wilson to continue — but he predicted that the Justice Department will still indict Wilson for violating Brown's civil rights.
"I'm sure there will be such a case filed," he said.
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