From the LVRJ:
The Nevada Supreme Court ruling Thursday to strike down the revised
coroner's inquest was being viewed as a victory by both proponents and
opponents of the fact-finding process.
The high court said the
county ordinance was unconstitutional due to a legal technicality,
however, it affirmed the inquest did not violate the due process of law
enforcement officers.
Richard Boulware, vice president of the Las Vegas NAACP, said the ruling vindicates the revisions made to the process.
Chris
Collins, head of the Police Protective Association, said in a statement
that the police union, "applauds the Nevada Supreme Court in its ruling
that the Clark County coroner's inquest process is a violation of the
state constitution."
County commissioners changed the inquest
process last year in response to critics who called the previous version
biased in favor of police. The new system added a lawyer to represent
the family of the dead, an addition that police union leaders said
transformed a fact-finding hearing into a fault-finding one.
In
the ruling, all seven justices agreed that the "inquest scheme," which
now calls for a justice of the peace to oversee the proceedings,
"unconstitutionally intrude(s) upon the Legislature's exclusive
constitutional authority to determine the jurisdiction of justices of
the peace." http://www.lvrj.com/news/nevada-supreme-court-strikes-down-revised-coroner-s-inquest-process-175820401.html
Before the Clark County commissioners, all Democrats, we had an open inquest system. This is sytem was was not perfect, at least the inquest was open.
Now, because of the incompetence of the Democrats on the Clark County board, all we have is the District Attorney reviewing police shooting and he does it quietly and without any scrutiny.
Now, we have nothing. Thanks Clark County Democrats band of idiots.
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