Yeah, actually the apology was quite good. I guess I would have liked equal dignity with the original takedown piece and a headline acknowledging the screw up. You're probably right about the demographics, but I have this uncomfortable gnawing suspicion that a lot people see this site as actual news.

The Gawker family of blogs has an entire business model around taking the sketchiest initial accounts of a controversial event and then immediately running a strongly worded piece based on an incomplete picture with zero independent fact checking. That's what Gawker does. This is all done in exchange for clicks of…

I think my general take on this (and reasonable people can disagree) is that Dorian simply isn't credible on a lot of key points, he has to be the main witness. And basically I'll rest on the previous points I made in support of that position, along with the links I sent over. There was a lot of certainty and strong…

While it's not testimony and he wasn't under oath, people got fired up on statements made by Dorian Johnson. The outrage was based on his TV appearances. We wouldn't be talking about this were it not for his TV accounts. So the accuracy of those matters a great deal. Looking back at the Washington Post article, on the…

"Of particular interest for evaluating Wilson's testimony is the location of the 12 shell casings recovered. Two of them were recovered close to Wilson's car, conforming to his testimony about his firing two shots there (vol. V, 226:4). After that, the remaining 10 casings were recovered adjacent to (or behind) the…

I actually don't think the facts have mattered much in this case. After all, this blog convicted the officer on the day after Brown was shot. (http://tinyurl.com/pkh6prz) Mike could have been charged with a strong-arm robbery, which is a felony, for what he did at the corner store. Another felony is attacking an…

The prosecutor has the burden of proof and it starts out at probable cause and then makes its way up to beyond a reasonable doubt. Witnesses aren't perfect and I think juries understand that, but I do think Dorian Johnson hobbles any decent case that a prosecutor might make. Fresh out of the gate, he does the TV…

Yeah, from a practical standpoint and rightly or wrongly, I just don't think someone is going to disturb the findings of the grand jury. My recollection is that there's an outstanding civil rights investigation against the Department and a possible civil trial, although that might have its own problems despite the…

My two cents as to your comments is that the criminal justice system rarely provides (and isn't required to provide) a perfect process, only a fair process. So you have pointed a number of failures in the process (bagging of evidence, handing out the wrong statute, etc.) and the question will be whether the overall…

It says a lot about this country that in order to stay alive, you have to bank on your dog to jump in front of bullets for you.

What questions would you propose asking the prosecutor? The two big complaints seem to be (1) while the prosecutor presented 5 different charges, he didn't specifically recommend one and (2) he presented too much evidence. What's your complaint(s) besides you don't agree with the outcome?

The link I posted cites less to opinion and more from verbatim testimony before the grand jury. I added it for the purpose of basically linking to the transcript.

Dorian isn't the only witness, but any jury is going to give more weight to his testimony. Why is that? Because he was with Mike since the beginning, most of the time he was walking with Mike so he had a great view of what was going on and Dorian was the one who made all thosr statements on TV about what had happened.…

I'll stand by my previous post to you. And I'll also add in that according to this witness, people have been coerced to testify in favor of Brown because "snitches get stitches."

Ok, I read part of the college journalist major's legal analysis which she posted to her Facebook page and I got to this part and stopped: "Officer Wilson broke police self-defense protocol, which teaches to disarm and incapacitate rather than kill and teaches officers to go for body shots." Gee Shelby, that's…

Yeah, I've seen that matrix before. It's missing a number of things. First, if an account conflicts with the physical evidence, their entire account is suspect. Also, a number of witnesses listed on this finally admitted that they hadn't actually seen what had happened. This matrix pays no attention to a concept…

"When you say the physical evidence "backs up" the officer's story, which version of his story are you referring to?" CNN thought it stayed pretty consistent (http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/27/us/…). I'd like to see a matrix of Dorian's accounts from his numerous TV interviews and then grand jury testimony ... what a…

How did the officer know for a fact that Brown was not armed again? The grand jury listened to 25 days of evidence and found no probable cause. You would have liked for the proceedings to be conducted in a different manner and I get that. But these people did look at the evidence and came to a determination based on…

And you're failing to weigh the evidence both for and against. It's not enough to say that there's evidence both for and evidence. You have to take a look at the quality. If you have physical evidence that establishes certain facts, conflicting witness testimony isn't going to do it.

What about Brown's blood on the interior of the car, including the part where blood was found on the interior of the driver's side door.