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Originally Posted by cartman
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I'm sure there's "Darren Wilson Supporters" among the ranks of an organization that helps families of deceased police officers and firefighters. That doesn't make their underlying mission illegitimate or something a prosecutor isn't allowed to participate in. The legal conflict rules just aren't that broad.
A different question is bias. I know some people think he shouldn't have handled this case because his father was an officer who was killed by a black man. I can kind of understand that that view, but again, I think it's too broad. All prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges, and lawyers generally, have lives, many of them have been impacted by crime, have been screwed over on a contracting job, had a paternity dispute, whatever. That doesn't mean they can't fairly handle cases involving those things. I can't even imagine how we would sort all that out if it wasn't the case. I guess on our first day we'd have to disclose all events in our lives into a database and then have an office assistant match up cases that are the most foreign to us as possible.