What’s missing from the Michael Brown grand jury transcripts? Index pages. For 22 out of 24 volumes of grand jury transcripts, the index page is missing. Here’s the list:
- volume 1 – page 4 missing
- volume 2 – page 4 missing
- volume 3 – page 4 missing
- volume 4 – page 4 missing
- volume 5 – page 4 missing
- volume 6 – page 4 missing
- volume 7 – page 4 missing
- volume 8 – page 4 missing
- volume 9 – page 4 missing
- volume 10 – page 4 missing
- volume 11 – page 4 missing
- volume 12 – page 4 missing
- volume 13 – page 4 missing
- volume 14 – page 4 missing
- volume 15 – page 4 missing
- volume 16 – page 4 missing
- volume 17 – page 4 missing
- volume 18 – page 4 missing
- volume 19 – page 4 missing
- volume 20 – page 4 missing
- volume 21 – page 4 present
- volume 22 – page 4 missing
- volume 23 – page 4 missing
- volume 24 – page 4 present
As you can see from the indexes in volumes 21 and 24, they not terribly useful but better than combing twenty-four volumes (4799 pages of text) to find where a witness testifies.
Someone (court reporter?) made a conscious decision to take action that makes the transcripts harder to user.
Perhaps this is, as they say, “chance.”
Stay tuned for posts later this week that upgrade that to “coincidence” and beyond.