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Grant Family To Cop: Spare Us Your Crocodile Tears
by Julianne Hing on June 26 2010, 1:34PM
Mehserle’s emotional testimony outrages Oscar Grant’s family, as prosecution chips away at the defense’s argument that the shooting was an accident.
Topics: Criminal Justice, Oscar Grant Trial
Oscar Grant Trial: I’m Not a Murderer
by Julianne Hing on June 25 2010, 12:52AM
Johannes Mehserle has finally spoken for himself. And in one compelling testimony he transformed from the anonymous symbol of cop brutality a sympathetic, imperfect human being a jury can understand.
Topics: Criminal Justice, Oscar Grant Trial
Oscar Grant Trial: Video Analyst Trips Up Defense
by Julianne Hing on June 24 2010, 1:19PM
A forensics expert the prosecution worked hard to keep out of the trial tells so many plain lies he just may tar Mehserle by association.
Topics: Criminal Justice, Oscar Grant Trial
Oscar Grant Trial: Gripping Testimony Opens Defense
by Julianne Hing on June 23 2010, 9:35AM
Johannes Mehserle’s defense kicks off with a combative, emotional exchange with Grant’s friend over what really happened on the BART platform that deadly night.
Topics: Criminal Justice, Oscar Grant Trial
Oscar Grant Trial: Train Operator Called Fight No Big Deal
by Julianne Hing on June 21 2010, 5:30PM
Keecha Williams testified that the fight on her train was typical New Year’s Eve fare, and that the fight Grant supposedly had with other people on the train was not unusually violent.
Topics: Criminal Justice, Oscar Grant Trial
Oakland Cops Stage Riot to Prep for Oscar Grant Verdict
by Julianne Hing on June 21 2010, 12:00PM
Bay Area police convened for a day-long training on arrest and crowd control techniques. They simulated violence by having plain clothes officers throw objects at police.
Topics: Criminal Justice, Oscar Grant Trial
BART Cop Pirone’s Convenient Memory Lapses
by Julianne Hing on June 18 2010, 7:29PM
Pirone could not remember how Grant got from his knees onto the floor of the platform. “It’s like trying to unscramble an egg,” Pirone said by way of explaining his fuzzy memories.
Topics: Criminal Justice, Oscar Grant Trial
Oscar Grant Trial: Prosecution Pokes Holes in BART Cop’s Story
by Julianne Hing on June 18 2010, 9:46AM
Eyewitnesses’ cell phone videos show that Oscar Grant and his friends were compliant with transit cops and did not resist their orders.
Topics: Criminal Justice, Oscar Grant Trial
DA: No Cop Pulls a Gun on Accident
by Julianne Hing on June 16 2010, 9:30AM
A retired BART patrol officer walked the courtroom through the four safety features in the gun Mehserle used that would have prevented the weapon from accidentally being shot.
Topics: Criminal Justice, Oscar Grant Trial
Oscar Grant Took Photo of Mehserle Holding Taser Gun
by Julianne Hing on June 10 2010, 11:35AM
Minutes before he was killed, Oscar Grant used his sister’s cell phone to take a photo of BART cop Johannes Mehserle holding and pointing his Taser at him.
Topics: Criminal Justice, Oscar Grant Trial
No Black Jurors In Oscar Grant Trial, But It Might Not Matter Anyway
by Julianne Hing on June 9 2010, 7:26PM
The 18 jurors in the Oscar Grant trial—six are alternates—have been selected, and none of them are Black. News of the jury’s racial composition has angered community members and the Grant family. “It feels like we already have lost,” Traci…
Topics: Criminal Justice
BART Cop Mehserle’s Defense: Push Race to the Sidelines
by Julianne Hing on June 7 2010, 12:47PM
Judge Robert Perry will rule soon on two motions filed by Mehserle’s attorney Michael Rains, who is trying to keep jurors from hearing about an exchange between another BART cop and Oscar Grant minutes before Mehserle shot 22-year-old Grant
Topics: Criminal Justice, Oscar Grant Trial
Oscar Grant Jurors Asked, Can You Overlook Race?
by Julianne Hing on June 4 2010, 9:53AM
A selection of 200 potential jurors for the trial of former BART officer Johannes Mehserle were interviewed for this week and asked to fill out a 14-page survey asking them about their attitudes on race and police.
Topics: Criminal Justice, Oscar Grant Trial
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