The reason I post this is that I really wonder why it took so long for the prosecutor to take this in front of a Grand Jury, not a question on the particulars of the case, of which I have no more information than what’s in the article.
\nIt seems to me, that if a prosecutor takes this long to do his job, the problem isn’t the investigation of the facts of the case, it’s the prosecutor not liking the fact he had such a weak, or non-existent case that he couldn’t even convince a Grand Jury that there was just enough evidence to show ‘probable cause’. Which is all it takes for a Grand Jury to send a case to court.<\/p>\n
Grand jury declines to indict man in Thanksgiving Day shooting death<\/a><\/p>\n JACKSON COUNTY, Ky. WTVQ) \u2013 A 45-year-old McKee resident has been released from jail\u00a0after more than five months after a grand jury declined to indict him in connection with a shooting death on Thanksgiving Day 2020.<\/p>\n According to the Jackson County Detention Center and Commonwealth Attorney Gary Gregory\u2019s office, the grand jury returned a \u2018no true bill\u2019 against Clint Cox and he was released from jail May 5.<\/p>\n A \u2018no true bill\u2019 means the grand jury did not find enough evidence to support a criminal indictment on murder or some related charge.<\/p>\n Gregory was out of his office Thursday but an assistant prosecutor said he didn\u2019t hear the grand jury presentation in the case but usually a \u2018no true bill\u2019 in such a case meant some evidence of self defense.<\/p>\n Kentucky State Police Det. Rob Morris could not be reached for comment Thursday about the evidence.<\/p>\n Cox originally was arrested and charged with murder on Nov. 26 after he fatally shot 21-year-old Justin Burkhart during an argument outside a home on Highway 421 in the McKee community. He had been in jail since then until his release earlier this month.<\/p>\n ORIGINAL STORY POSTED NOV. 27, 2020<\/p>\n MCKEE, Ky. (WTVQ) \u2013 A Thanksgiving Day argument left one man dead and another in jail in Jackson County, according to Kentucky State Police.<\/p>\n Investigators say 21-year old Justin Burkhart, of McKee, got into an altercation outside a home on US Highway 421 with 45-year old Clint Cox, also of McKee.<\/p>\n KSP says Cox grabbed a gun and shot Burkhart to death. Investigators say it happened just after 2:00 p.m. They did not say what the argument was about.<\/p>\n State Police say Cox was arrested and charged with murder. He was taken to the Jackson County Detention Center.<\/p>\n Burkhart\u2019s body is being taken to the State Medical Examiner\u2019s Office in Louisville for an autopsy, according to KSP.<\/p>\n The ongoing investigation is being conducted by KSP Post 7 Detective Rob Morris. He was assisted at the scene by KSP personnel, the Jackson County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the Jackson County Coroner\u2019s Office, Jackson County EMS and the McKee Fire Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The reason I post this is that I really wonder why it took so long for the prosecutor to take this in front of a Grand Jury, not a question on the particulars of the case, of which I have no more information than what’s in the article. It seems to me, that if a … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68184,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68183\/revisions\/68184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}