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To: GopherIt
Are you saying "no-billed" and "cleared of wrongdoing"

Don't you think if there were sufficient basis for prosecution they would have indicted?

DO you have access to/have you seen all the facts that the empaneled grand jury saw?

34 posted on 03/04/2003 7:54:31 PM PST by _Jim (//NASA has a better safety record than NASCAR\\)
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To: _Jim
Don't you think if there were sufficient basis for prosecution they would have indicted?

LOL! After Waco, Ruby Ridge, Klinton scandals, etc.... it's clear that NO evidence is enough to endict an elite or one of their knights.

After all, it is their noble right to do as the please.

36 posted on 03/04/2003 7:56:47 PM PST by Mulder (It's all for nothing if you don't have Freedom)
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To: _Jim
Nothing from nothing but...

Rather than a bulwark against "hasty, malicious and oppressive prosecution," today's federal grand jury is a rubber stamp, leading many to agree that "a good prosecutor could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich." Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL), former Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, noted that the federal grand jury, originally established by the Founding Fathers as a means of protecting American citizens against government excess, is today a captive of federal prosecutors.The prosecutor exercises enormous power, unrestrained by law or judicial supervision. The grand jury process itself is largely devoid of legal rules. The process has become one that wholly fails to protect ordinary American citizens.

To examine this once-great but now languishing institution, NACDL established "The Commission to Reform the Federal Grand Jury," a bi-partisan, blue-ribbon panel that included current and former prosecutors, as well as academics and defense attorneys. The unanimous conclusions and proposals of this diverse group are contained in the widely-distributed publication Federal Grand Jury Reform Report & 'Bill of Rights.' Among the critical, workable reforms detailed in that report are: (1) the right to counsel for grand jury witnesses who are not receiving immunity; (2) an obligation to present evidence which may exonerate the target or subject of the offense; and (3) the right for targets or subjects to testify. In response to reported abuses, several states, New York and Massachusetts among them, have successfully added these well-considered features to their grand jury systems.

Mash here for more.

53 posted on 03/04/2003 8:10:49 PM PST by nunya bidness (And if you can find lower prices anywhere my name ain't Nathan Arizona!)
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To: _Jim
One of the things I recall in the book about Chappaquidick (sp?) by Damore is the grand jury which investigated.

According to the author the grand jury has tremendous power but the average citizen serving has no idea what they can do and are totally controlled by the DA. After the grand jury was dismissed, some of them later realized they had been mislead by the DA as to what they could do.

I would not read too much into the fact that a Maryland grand jury does not indict a fed who works daily on the same side as the DA.

Anyone who has read the story of what happened and defends the agents is clearly a lickspittle. In fact I would put it even more strongly. Anyone who sides with the Feds in this case is despicable.

54 posted on 03/04/2003 8:11:37 PM PST by yarddog
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To: _Jim
Don't you think if there were sufficient basis for prosecution they would have indicted?

"Add me to your bump list."

114 posted on 03/05/2003 7:22:16 PM PST by Stew Padasso
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