McCulloch is 0-5 in cases that he has taken to a grand jury with policemen who have shot unarmed civilians. This little statistic from the Last Word last night continues to stick with me. Georgetown University Law Professor Paul Butler explained this when he said, "The fix was in."
Indeed it was. There's so much wrong with how this prosecutor handled his case to the grand jury, most of which is being parsed through today on this site (and rightfully so). I also am not a big fan of ad hominem attacks myself. However, given this prosecutor's history, given the fact that his own father, a policeman himself, was shot and killed by an African American male, how on earth are we not going to consider just how much he didn't want to prosecute this officer from the start, and deliberately stacked the deck from the get go? I'm sorry, but his reputation precedes him here, and Governor Nixon has much to answer for ignoring the requests for a different prosecutor.