Sentences with phrase «cleared by a grand jury»

Police Officer Darren Wilson — who was recently cleared by a grand jury in the shooting death of unarmed teen Michael Brown — recently sat down with ABC News, telling George Stephanopoulos, «The reason I have a clean conscience is that I know I did my job right.»

French was cleared by the grand jury five days after the shooting.

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Attorneys in a federal lawsuit filed by the widow of a Watervliet man who was fatally shot by a Troy police sergeant are seeking to unseal the minutes of a Rensselaer County grand jury that cleared the officer of wrongdoing.

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The decision by Abelove to not have the officer sign an immunity waiver raised questions about the validity of the grand jury's determination to clear the police officer — because the panel could not have voted to indict him without a waiver.

After French was cleared, Schneiderman accused Abelove of making an «end run» around Cuomo's executive order by rushing the case before the grand jury at a time when the attorney general's office said it would review the shooting.

The report chronicling Schneiderman's year - long investigation into the shooting death of Edson Thevenin, 37, highlighted the controversial decision by Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel E. Abelove to secretly grant immunity to Sgt. Randall French when the officer testified before a grand jury that cleared him of wrongdoing.

Schneiderman accused Abelove of making an «end run» around Cuomo's executive order by secretly rushing the case before a grand jury that cleared Sgt. Randall French of wrongdoing before the attorney general's office could review the shooting.

They were cleared of any wrongdoing by a Manhattan grand jury in 2013.

The unusual confrontation took place after Schneiderman's office accused Abelove of doing an «end run» around the governor's executive order by quickly putting the shooting case in front a grand jury, which cleared the officer who fired the shots less than a week after the incident.

In a statement responding to the report, Planned Parenthood noted that three other congressional investigations and 13 state - level probes of the group, including one by a grand jury in Texas, have cleared Planned Parenthood of wrongdoing.

One remedy is to insert citizen judgment precisely around issues of educational equity, where a civil grand jury report will be a clear, official judgment by citizens, and where a grand jury has independent subpoena authority if its members feel that additional evidence is needed.