[rolling_stone]

Yokels that get together and decide to call themselves a ‘Grand Jury’ have never been taken seriously by any level of government.

Why is that? Because the Govt doesn't want ordinary people to have the power to indict them and their friends, they reserve that to the DA's who are elected and wield enough power to indict a ham sandwich if they care to or let a bloody murderer with 100 witnesses go free...

[El Sordo]

No, because yokels act stupidly in groups and will just operate along their own prejudices and misconceptions without any formal rules, structures, standards of evidence or accountability.

How about this “Citizen’s Grand Jury” indictment: http://stj911.org/paul/SDCGJ_HistoricResults.html

How stoked are you about their pronouncement?

[jamese777]

Why is that? Because the Govt doesn’t want ordinary people to have the power to indict them and their friends, they reserve that to the DA’s who are elected and wield enough power to indict a ham sandwich if they care to or let a bloody murderer with 100 witnesses go free...

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You don’t seem to be too impressed with “a republican form of government” that our Constitution mandates. It looks like you prefer pure democracy.

Ordinary people sit on Grand Juries. When a citizen is called for “jury duty,” they might end up on a local, county, state or federal Grand Jury or on a trial jury.

[butterdezillion]

You nailed it on that one. They do CYA for each other.