Not justice, just ‘crowd control’
May 3, 2015 by 21 Comments
Famed defense lawyer and liberal Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz blasted Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s rush to judgment in bringing homicide charges against six cops for the death of Freddie Gray.
Dershowitz told Newsmax’s Steve Malzberg that it was “a very sad day for justice.”
“Today had nothing to do with justice,” he said in a telephone interview Friday. “Today was crowd control. Everything was motivated by a threat of riots and a desire to prevent riots.”
Dershowitz also ripped into Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.
“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,” he told Malzberg.
“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,” he said. “They have been presumed guilty.”
Read more: http://www.bizpacreview.com/2015/05/03/liberal-law-professor-demolishes-case-against-baltimore-cops-not-justice-just-crowd-control-200979#ixzz3Z6MBD95b
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