[gypsylea]

It has been a while since I last dealt with a case involving a Federal GJ, but the last time I was I was put under a lot of pressure to make my client decide whether to be a nice guy and cooperate or not. (He didn't; the AUSA didn't know he had terminal lung cancer-- he died a few months later.) The ostensible reason was the near expiration of the GJ term. I said "Ask for an extension" and was told that in that District (Central District CA) extensions were "strongly disfavored" by the District Court.

Still, a new grand jury could be convened at a later term, testimony from the previous GJ could be read in front of the new GJ, and indictments issued on that basis, unless something has changed.

[Rummyfan]

I said "Ask for an extension" and was told that in that District (Central District CA) extensions were "strongly disfavored" by the District Court.

If he did ask for an extension, absent new and startling facts, I hope the judge told him two years of this nonsense is enough!

[Steve_Seattle]

Lugsoul keeps reiterating that Fitz had a slam-dunk case on the initial "outing" charge over a year ago, and that all he needed to tidy things up was the testimony of Miller and Cooper. Well, Miller and Cooper testified, but Fitz still seems to be at loose ends with his "slam-dunk" case and "voluminous" damning testimony that the judges referred to so long ago. In one of his briefs, Fitz mentioned that the investigation had taken an "unexpected turn." Some of us hope that means he might have latched on to the CIA hijinks and the politicization of classified material on the part of the anti-Bush faction, but that would be almost too good to be true. It could mean he is trying to nail everyone who ever uttered the name of Valery Plame as part of some huge conspiracy.