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Unethical Prosecutor, Dan Satterberg, Excuses Police Misconduct

Thanks to the Internet, we no longer need to take unethical prosecutors like King County prosecutor Dan Satterberg at their word:King County prosecutors will not file criminal charges against a sheriff's deputy who slammed a man into a wall so hard after a foot chase that he was left in a coma."It's a tragic incident, but there is no legal basis for a criminal charge," said Dan Donohoe, spokesman for Prosecutor Dan Satterberg, Christopher Harris, 29, of Edmonds, was placed on life support after the incident. Does this video support Satterberg's assertion that there exists "no legal basis for a criminal charge"? Incidentally, the officer, Deputy Matthew Hall, weighed 270 pounds:

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on August 05, 2009 (boomark / email).