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To: CutePuppy

This was the original reason hundreds of years ago for the grand jury system - to keep the king’s prosecutor at bay. The abuse of prosecutorial power for political pusposes underpinned the entire concept.

We’re right back where we started.


10 posted on 06/12/2010 2:42:45 AM PDT by chilltherats (First, kill all the lawyers (now that they ARE the tyrants).......)
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To: chilltherats; SierraWasp
This was the original reason hundreds of years ago for the grand jury system - to keep the king’s prosecutor at bay. The abuse of prosecutorial power for political pusposes underpinned the entire concept.

Good point.

14 posted on 06/12/2010 8:59:14 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Grovelnator Schwarzenkaiser, fashionable fascism one charade at a time.)
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