Durham, from Connecticut, has already employed a grand jury for this case - there. In New Haven.
It's a Federal case, so it doesn't matter where the perps live or where they happened to be standing when they committed their crimes.
That sounds encouraging. Thanks for that info.
Wrong. Federal venue is the district where the crime was committed. In cases like wire and mail fraud, you can show venue at each end of the transaction (i.e., where the fraudulent communication was sent or where it was received).
A federal prosecutor cannot, however, simply choose to file charges against a defendant in whichever one of the 94 federal judicial districts in the U.S. that the prosecutor wants.
That's not encouraging. I'm sure all the deep state bureaucrats who work in Connecticut are quaking in their boots. The ones in D.C.? Not so much.
"It's a Federal case, so it doesn't matter where the perps live or where they happened to be standing when they committed their crimes."
Not true. The indictments must still be filed in the district (or one of the districts) where the crimes were committed.
From the Handbook for Federal Grand Jurors:
" the federal grand jury's function is to determine whether a person shall be tried for a serious federal crime alleged to have been committed within the district where it sits" - Page 2
" a federal grand jury can take action only upon federal crimes that have been committed within the district in which it has been impaneled" - Page 3
and "district" means specifically:
"District: The geographical area over which the federal district court where the grand jury sits and the grand jury itself have jurisdiction." - Page 8