Does this mean that a grand jury actually reviewed this case and signed off on the proposed charges? Sadly, a lot of grand juries these days don’t seem to actually do their job - they’ll just rubber-stamp whatever nonsense is put in front of them.
Introduce them to the idea of presentment and the notion that they can [and should] tackle official corruption and see how long the DAs rely on just rubber-stamping.
Tom Delay, is that you?
I know somebody who was on a grand jury. They met once a month, and had a marathon session....case after case after case paraded in front of him. Mind numbing.
And the vast majority (as in all but 2 or 3) were approved...most of the time the prosecutor doesn’t go to the grand jury, unless he really has a case. So I can see how it would be hard to weed out the occasional bad case.
On another note, he said they got two types of cases:
- Guns and Drugs
or
- Drugs and Guns
Can’t believe you haven’t heard the story of the ham sandwich...