Alan Dershowitz: Charges Won't Stick Against Baltimore Cops

by JASmius



Uh-oh.

Gee, where have we heard this possibility pointed out in the last few days?:

Criminal charges filed Friday against six Baltimore police officers in the death of Freddie Gray were based on "politics and crowd control," not justice, renowned civil rights lawyer Alan Dershowitz tells Newsmax TV.

"This is a very sad day for justice . . . Today had nothing to do with justice. Today was crowd control. Everything was motivated by a threat of riots and a desire to prevent riots," Dershowitz said on The Steve Malzberg Show.

"The mayor outrageously said we're going to get justice for the victim, the family and people of Baltimore, never mentioning the defendants. Under our Constitution, the only people who are entitled to justice are the defendants.

"They are presumed innocent, they need due process of law, and the mayor and the state attorney have made it virtually impossible for these defendants to get a fair trial. They have been presumed guilty."

Because that is the new definition of "justice," wherein the politically disfavored are defined as "evil" and therefore "guilty," and the politically favored define themselves as "good," and therefore entitled and empowered to commit any evil, corrupt, and violent acts necessary to suppress and destroy "evil," whether "freelance" like the rioters, or state-sanctioned like Mayor Blake and SA Mosby

Consequently, only the three black cops charged have any chance at a fair trial, and the three white cops may as well start practicing not dropping the soap.

But Dershowitz, a Harvard Law professor emeritus and Newsmax contributor, said the case will very likely be thrown out for lack of evidence....

"There's no plausible, hypothetical, conceivable case for murder under the facts that we now know them. You might say that conceivably there's a case for manslaughter. Nobody wanted this guy to die, nobody set out to kill him, and nobody intentionally murdered him....

Dershowitz added that the charges did not meet the criteria for justice in the United States.

"It may have been the criteria in Rome, for Fidel Castro, in Iran, and in other countries, but in our country you don't base indictments on what impact it's going to have on the crowd," he said.

"You base it on a hard, neutral, objective view of the evidence, and it doesn't look like that was done here....

Of course not. Because this is Obamerikastan, which is to the Left of Rome, Fidel Castro, Iran, and "other countries". Because this is no longer a constitutional federal Republic, but an Islamocommunist dictatorship where the president rules through the mob and We, The People are ruled by both and have no rights. Because this is what sixty-two million idiots voted for in consecutive presidential elections.

Still think your vote doesn't - didn't - matter?

And finally, we arrive at the point where Professor Dershowitz echoes me all but verbatium:

They have invited a mess. What they did is they bartered short-term results today for long-term problems in the future.

"My prediction? They've overplayed their hand, it's unlikely they'll get any convictions in this case as a result of this, and if they do, there's a good possibility it'll be reversed on appeal and will just postpone the riots for months ahead." [emphases added]

Couldn't put it better myself.

And I did.