Normally, grand jury decisions remain confidential to protect the identity of the witnesses in the cases. But groups are petitioning a New York judge to release the records of the grand jury deliberations in the Staten Island chokehold death of Eric Garner. The New York Civil Liberties Union, the Legal Aid Society and the New York Post have petitioned to make public the usually secret deliberations – in order to scrutinize and potentially critique the grand jury process. Hot Air’s Noah Rothman writes, “The disclosure of the deliberations in this case might either reinforce or scuttle the notion perpetuated by some of the cable news landscape’s agitators slash legal analysts that the grand jury was tainted by the introduction of too much evidence by the Staten Island prosecutor. The truth of this will be either confirmed or refuted by the release of these records.” In other words, the record will silence pundits running on mere conjecture. Al Sharpton, we’re looking at you. More…