February 08, 2005
Unseal The Grand Jury Records From James Jahar Perez Shooting
And, If Necessary, Recall District Attorney Schrunk
We've been doing some clean-up in old entires, to conform the layout of updates posted to various items to the current site design. A few minutes ago we finished the clean-up on our entries from the jury of inquest into last year's officer-involved shooting of James Jahar Perez.
In the course of going through those items, we ran across one which should be mentioned again, in which we make the case for recalling Multnomah County District Attorney Michael Schrunk from office.
Read that original item to see the case against Schrunk. But for now, we repeat the item's final argument, that the records from the grand jury which refused to indict Jason Sery be unsealed.
At issue for us then, and again now that we've come across our earlier item on this, is whether or not Schrunk withheld evidence from the grand jury in the same way in which he kept it from the jury of inquest. There's only one way to know for certain, and that's to unseal the grand jury records.
This might seem like old and forgotten news to some, and perhaps therefore irrelevant. That's the benefit to having to do some gruntwork back through old entires here -- we get reminded of stories that were left behind, by us and everyone else.
With the exception of the family of James Jahar Perez, of course.