No, not a good thing...a terrible thing! A jury is a panel of regular folks. They are not trained legal practitioners. They are in NO WAY qualified to decide what the appropriate charges should be in a case. The things you like, those are all part of a trial. That's the point of a trial, except in a trial it's all out in the open and there are two sides actually working towards a goal. In this instance the prosecutor torpedoed his own side as he had no intention of ever prosecuting a cop. With column 1 he has less room for manoeuvrability. With column 1 he has to present his case against Darren Wilson, suggest a charge and nothing more. In column 2 he gets to present both sides of the argument and no one else is on the other side to call him on it.leaving the charges up to the jury
all bets are unfortunately off