No Charges For Marvin Harrison
January 6, 2009 by Mike
From Pro Football Talk:
Prosecutorial discretion is one of the most expansive and powerful concepts in the law. With that authority, the representatives of the public decide who gets charged with the commission of crimes.
And who doesn’t.
In Philadelphia, the fact that a gun owned by Colts receiver Marvin Harrison fired up to six bullets at another man in April 2008 has yet to prompt District Attorney Lynne Abraham to pursue charges against Harrison.
And Abraham said at a Tuesday press conference that no charges will be pursued.
She explained that she does not believe there are credible accounts of the events that resulted in the shooting of the gun owned by Harrison at David Dixon, who previously was charged with making false statements to police, after he apparently offered up a different explanation for his injuries — possibly in order to avoid “snitching” on Harrison.
In other words, Abraham does not believe that a jury would find that Harrison was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Or, perhaps more accurately, she’s not inclined to take on the risk of a high-profile courtroom butt-kicking — regardless of whether the facts (and common sense) suggest that Harrison was something more than an innocent bystander.
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