Officials in St. Louis County said Thursday that someone hacked a Twitter account and tweeted about the grand jury investigation into Michael Brown’s death.
Protestors at the St. Louis County Justice Center on Aug. 20.
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St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch made the statement in a letter released Thursday, saying that "no information or evidence has been released by the grand jury."
The letter was a response to a controversy that erupted earlier this month when it appeared that someone on the grand jury — which is supposed to conduct its investigation entirely behind closed doors — was talking to a Twitter user going by the name Susan Nichols. In a tweet that was quickly deleted, Nichols suggested Officer Darren Wilson wouldn't face charges for killing Brown.
Later, other would-be exclusive information trickled out in several news stories, including ones published by The New York Times and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
McCulloch's letter argues that none of the information became public via leaks from the grand jury.
"As exasperating as I and others find the piecemeal release of information and documents," he wrote, "no information or evidence has been released by the grand jury, any individual juror or anyone associated with the grand jury."
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