Gothamist: Brooklyn DA Admits Prosecutor Didn't Follow Up

nick

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:08:15 -0500

jen chung where'd you go?

sp

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:01:19 -0500

to bad for her that she wasn't white, an actress or socialite, and living in manhattan.

Justice

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:04:53 -0500

The cops and the da dropped the ball. Typical.

okki

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:03:37 -0500

not amused: does that bring their daughter back?

Not amused

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:43:20 -0500

There's an old saying "What comes around , Goes around " . (Use your own definition)The family will sue the city and they will in turn settle out of court and the whole mess will be done with .

Lexiphane

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:05:36 -0500

When the family decided not to press charges of harrassment, the decision was based partly on the fact that Megnath was threatening to kill them. That seems like an ideal situation for a prosecutor to step up and mention to the judge the full context surrounding the case for higher or revoked bail. I'm sure everyone in the DA's office is very busy, but Teitelman seems to have dropped the ball on this one.

Andrew

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:01:26 -0500

No John Liu press release? Oh, that's right... it involved people of Indian decent. That gets a big John Liu ignore.

Correction

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:49:09 -0500

Samantha T, while the police can make an arrest without the victim's consent, prosecuting a case without the victim's cooperation is virtually impossible, especially when the charges are harassment. Without the victim available to testify about the harassing remarks made by the defendant, there's no shot of a conviction and it would be borderline unethical for the DA's office to go forward with the case knowing full well that it will never win at trial.

Samantha T

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:26:23 -0500

""Everybody's pointing fingers at each other, [but] no one's trying to correct it...It shouldn't be, 'Oh, do you want to press charges?' It should be, 'You're going in jail.'" I completely agree - what is up with putting the onus on the victim to enforce the law? The whole "pressing charges" thing is a myth. Once the police know about a crime, they have full discretion to arrest the person, regardless of whether the victim wants them to or not. People often use the "pressing charges" thing with respect to victims of domestic violence to justify why the police don't arrest abusers. It's total crap.

edEx

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:14:33 -0500

RIP.

me

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:04:31 -0500

you should use the picture you used earlier in the week – she looks much hotter in that one.

Correction

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:03:18 -0500

Teitelman. The ADA's name is Caryn Teitelman.