CHOP Verdict: Seattle Pays $30M — No Charges

Описание: A jury hit Seattle with a $30 million civil verdict tied to the CHOP shooting murder, even though no one was ever criminally charged and the shooter was never identified.

That sounds impossible. It isn’t.

This case exposes a hard truth about the legal system: civil law and criminal law answer different questions. Sometimes one can act while the other can’t. When that happens, money becomes the substitute for punishment, and the public feels the gap.

In this episode of Crime News, Cross-Examined, I break down:

what the jury actually decided

why criminal law stopped

what this verdict means for accountability

and whether this kind of outcome is a feature of the system, not a bug

I don’t rule until the end.

⏱️ Chapters

00:00 – The Paradox: $30M, No Charges
00:32 – The CHOP Shooting in Plain Facts
01:13 – Prosecution Of the Civil Case Against Seattle
01:47 – Why Criminal Law Couldn’t Proceed
02:34 – Cross-Examination: Money vs Justice
02:39 – The Law: Two Systems, Two Standards
04:21 – My Ruling
05:39 – Closing

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