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... well no, but being cleared by a jury is significant, especially to those who would put this down to police corruption. The case came to trial, but it failed in the analysis as far as the jury saw it.

The jury can be won over think of the OJ trail and what happen with that.

Yeah but if you are going to go around challenging jury verdicts you are getting onto a whole different subject.

The fact is that the system tried its best to prosecute this guy.

They should had but what is done I guess.

if they were going for just assault the guy can ask to have him retried under a different law.. like false imprisonment..

No, I'd imagine the court wouldn't accept any further prosecutions related to the incident. They went for what they wanted and got what they could.

pretty sure its up to the guy and his lawyer to refile dont think the prosecution can say no if a law was actually broken and had warrant to it..

i mean its just imo i'm not a lawyer or anything.

Nah, there are all sorts of precedents that stop the essential nature of a case being retried. You don't prosecute each crime separately; you do it all at once. Any charges they didn't try to prosecute now never will be.

tv like: CIS, cold case and law and order says different,,, 😉

Originally posted by Wild Shadow
tv like: CIS, cold case and law and order says different,,, 😉

Then it must be true. It is illegal to lie on TV.

Originally posted by Bardock42
Then it must be true. It is illegal to lie on TV.

Originally posted by Bardock42
Then it must be true. It is illegal to lie on TV.

Originally posted by Wild Shadow
tv like: CIS, cold case and law and order says different,,, 😉

A cold case generally refers to something that never came to trial; an unfinished investigation.

This isn't remotely similar. Once you have been tried for crimes relating to an incident, that closes the book for further criminal trials on that incident. I think you could possibly claim double jeopardy, anyway, as you cannot be tried twice for the same incident on the same facts.

Nor am I even certain that a false imprisonment charge would have ever stood up in court, as the only thing that has been legally established is that Pogan faked paperwork. The cyclist was released and his lawsuit was settled, so that part of it is all over.

Basically- if it had been at all practical to get him on it, they would have tried. Now it won't ever happen.

So basically if we reversed the roles having the policeman on the bike and John Doe in the street, does John Doe get charged for assault?

The comedy of hypocrisy is endless 😂

isnt it? it really is corruption at the judicial lvl and preference.. cops are at times given an out while a civilian is charged more harshly for attacking a policemen..

i say the dude should take him to civil court sue his @$$ off

Except he can't, since it is already done with. Our court system deliberately prevents people from taking further action once a jury has declared a verdict.

Originally posted by REXXXX
Except he can't, since it is already done with. Our court system deliberately prevents people from taking further action once a jury has declared a verdict.

I thought you could get both a civil and criminal trial in some circumstances.

you can. 😐

Originally posted by King Castle
isnt it? it really is corruption at the judicial lvl and preference.. cops are at times given an out while a civilian is charged more harshly for attacking a policemen..

i say the dude should take him to civil court sue his @$$ off

Again, calling this corruption is not appropriate. He was not covered by the system; the system tried to take him down. It was the jury that cleared him.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
I thought you could get both a civil and criminal trial in some circumstances.

You got me there, honestly didn't think of that.