One of the problems is that Florida law [and others no doubt] permits a prosecutor to exclude exculpatory evidence from an indictment. This should be changed. If the forensic evidence had been included in the indictment, Corey would have appeared to be an idiot before the judge and the judge an idiot for accepting it. We all knew what was up when she refused to take this to a grand jury first.
We need to keep some sort of a jury system as part of whatever we come up with but even that has become dysfunctional of late. A reasonable jury system for the present age would be a national pool of qualified jurors, say a few hundred thousand people, select 12 of them with a random number generator for any particular trial, and require 80% agreement or something like that to convict somebody of anything, I mean it’s not rocket science and something reasonable could be arrived at, humans aren’t the outright dumbest animal on the planet...
And what the hell is with optional grand juries anyway?? The entire purpose of the grand jury system is to get buy-in from the public non-legal-professional community on the possible guilt of the party being indicted. It's a check on a government power subject to misuse. How the HELL can that be optional for the very people it's supposed to supervise?? This very case shows why it's bad to be able to skip that step. Just like jury nullification, it's there for a reason, yet they sit there and lie without consequence to tell you it isn't.