You're probably right. They have been sitting around weighing whether it was worth trying to say that that DNA which came from someone living in the house showing up on a fake fingernail laying in the bathroom would not just be laughed away. They also had to balance that against who his parents are. Nifong promised 3 indictments and is going to give them 3. Does he need a new grand jury? I guess he is still not presenting exculpatory evidence to the grand jury. Why is that not illegal? It should be.
I imagine at least a few of the 18 grand jurors were surprised to learn of Seligmann's impressive alibi the day after they indicted him. If they were watching tv, they may have wondered why their dorm rooms were searched AFTER they were charged and not earlier.
Whoever presents Pancho Villa's evidence to them on Monday may find the group far less docile. At least I hope so.
That's the way the Grand Jury works!
I am finding out a lot of stuff abuot NC Courts that is less than impressive.
I did not know that there are no pre-trial hearings and that there is no right to a speedy trial in North Carolina.
It's not required in a GJ presentation because a GJ has the ability to ask questions and seek exculpatory information and bring their own information to the table. But when handled and manipulated by a prosecutor, they simply don't exercise that potential. The GJ system is a dinosaur in terms of initiating felony cases and is actually dangerous, as we are seeing. There are only about a third of the states that use indicting GJs to initiate threshold felony cases for this reason. Some states don't even have indicting GJs anymore.