Baltimore To Pay $6.4 Million To Freddie Gray's Family

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

There you go conflating civil and criminal liability again. The payment to the family discharges the city's civil liability for damages for a wrongful death. It never could discharge anyone's exposure to criminal trial and punishment.

But simple things like lack of effective prosecution in a criminal trial would -- certainly -- have an affect on any civil $$$ whether admitted to by a jury or not. These things don't occur in vacuums even if we desire them to.

Originally Posted by donquixote99

The fact that officials have in other cases paid civil settlements while avoiding prosecuting, leaving the payment to stand as the only 'justice' to be rendered, doesn't make that right.

But it's the ONLY reason you do it, up front. (Well, unless you think you're hand is SO bad that you cannot possibly get any acquittals or mistrials, criminally.)

Proven as fallacy right off the bat.

Dumb.

Baltimore is spewing $$$ left and right over a criminal.