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Posted on 11/19/2025 10:41:49 AM PST by Miami Rebel
The Justice Department on Wednesday admitted that the operative indictment against former FBI Director James Comey was never presented to the full grand jury — a procedural error defense attorneys say should bar the prosecution.
The admission came under sharp questioning from U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff, after several judges overseeing parts of the case had raised concerns about the government’s presentation and an apparent discrepancy in the grand jury record.
Instead of presenting a new indictment to the full panel after it rejected one of the counts, interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan gave the grand jury’s foreperson an updated version — not seen by the other grand jurors — to sign.
Nachmanoff asked the government several times whether he understood correctly that the operative indictment was never shown to the entire panel.
“Yes, that is my understanding,” Tyler Lemons, an assistant U.S. attorney, said.
The judge called Halligan up to the lectern to answer additional questions, as she was the only prosecutor who made the government’s case to grand jurors for an indictment.
“Am I correct —” the judge began.
“No, you’re not,” Halligan interrupted, clasping her wrists behind her back.
She said that the grand jury foreperson and a second grand juror were present in the magistrate’s courtroom, recalling the proceeding. The judge said he was familiar with the transcript and directed her to sit down.
Michael Dreeben, an attorney for Comey, told the judge that the apparent error calls for dismissal because “no indictment was returned.”
That means the statute of limitations on the false statements and obstruction charges Comey faces, stemming from 2020 testimony he gave Congress, has lapsed, he contended.
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(I'm kidding. Her law degree is from the University of Miami, and I know many fine attorneys with that degree. But the facts remain she never prosecuted a single case and her work experience had been in real estate insurance.)
Is this payback for Trump pushing her to indict?
It’s over Johnny. It’s over.
For the Sake of Pete, why did we hand the case to the Keystone Cops?
Basically he’s going to get away with it, they ALWAYS DO, every single time
She just needs to tell the judge she identifies as Jack Smith.
Is Bondi doing the paperwork for every case? I think this is more like sabotage from Deep State types still employed at the DOJ. Whoever set this case up to fail should be in an UNemployment line. Like TODAY!
If rookie mistakes were made, what I want tt know is, why was a rookie put in charge of such an important case? Arguably the most important case to MAGA.
Why weren’t seasoned prosecutors guiding her every step of the way?
Pam?
Just another double-standard, this time by applying the law strictly to us normal conservatives, and loosely or not at all to libs, Communists, Rats, anarchists, etc.
Giving them every out because of some legal procedural hairsplitting.
It's still the same old story, and we are not buying it.
We are extremely tired of the law being twisted like this, with EVERY twist going against us normals.
Just wait and see how CA's electoral redistricting is unamimously approved by the judiciary. Whereas TX's is rejected for being racist.
Just watch and see that happen.
Thanks for coming in today, Pam. Why dont you do something useful like make us all a sandwich.
Looks like somebody somewhere, really Didn’t want to prosecute James Comey.
The real question you should ask is this. If this were General Flynn or another Trump official, would the Judge dismiss this case for not presenting it to the full grand jury?
I think not.
“sabotage from Deep State”
Yes, and there is a lot of that going on.
Far too little, far too late.
I suspect you are correct. Similar to Uganda Man
We have had cases close to us, dropped and not prosecuted because they were understaffed in the prosecutor’s office. Why are these lackadaisical attitudes allowed to prevail? Why waste the law enforcement officers time? The prosecutor’s office is where I expect a tight ship. The dog catcher’s office is where we can dismiss things for lack of staff.
DOJ like the DMV show up and have to work too?.
The biggest criminal case in 50 years and Bondi turns it into effin’ amateur hour!
You think a court should allow a case to move forward without an indictment?
This wasn’t a technically flawed indictment. IT WASN’T AN INDICTMENT. And Halligan knew it.
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