the closest thing that we've had to putting this case before a judge was when it was put in front of a justice on the release hearing, and she absolutely ripped the attorney to shreds.

"do you have any idea how..."

she stopped before she finished, but she was going to end with something between "how unlawful this detention is" and "how retarded this situation is"...

the police investigator probably has no meaningful legal training, and his decisions are not legal documents. the review panel is a "citizen committee" that shouldn't even exist at all.

it's a dumbing down and hollowing out of a system that should be directed at every point by seasoned professionals, not directed by fuzzy ideas from pop culture, or political expediency.

as stated: it's over. great. now, let's start the real legal process, in actual seriousness.