S.I. justice says there’s no “compelling and particular need” to release any more information regarding the grand jury decision
Last week, Judge William Garnett ruled that no more information would be released from the grand jury deliberation in the case of Eric Garner, who was choked to death by Officer Daniel Panteleo in August of last year.
The New York Civil Liberties Union, the organization that requested the minutes after the grand jury decided not to indict Panteleo in December, is already in motion to appeal that decision.
“We are disappointed that the court has chosen to perpetuate secrecy rather than promote transparency. In doing so, the court has reinforced the distrust many New Yorkers already feel toward the performance of the criminal justice system in this case,”
says NYCLU legal director Arthur Eisenberg.
After the grand jury voted not to indict the officer last year, a judge released information about the Garner grand jury, however, the report was very limited. Judge Garnett says that even after nine weeks of deliberation in Garner’s case, there was no “compelling or particular need to release the records.
Garner was killed on July 17 after he was choked by Officer Pantaleo when he attempted to arrest him for selling untaxed cigarettes.
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He wasn’t choked to death, he died of medical complications brought on by him Resisting Arrest..