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What is your opinion on California's bill SB-227?
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August 27th, 2015
According to most people, the change in the grand jury law is supposed to lead to more transparency in the cases of fatal police shootings.
However, in reading the text of the bill, I see nothing to guarantee more transparency. I understand that the idea behind it is to prevent prosecutors from using grand juries as tools (and they do – I know personally from time spent on a grand jury) to get the outcome they want, but is simply transferring all of the power over to them the answer?
This way, it was intended that prosecutors can no longer say “Well, you can’t blame me. It was the grand jury that made this decision”. But do you think this will actually make any kind of difference?
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