“You don’t have Grand Jury in Texas? Prosecutors make indictments?”
GJ indictments are only required for serious felonies.
GRAND JURY. The function of the grand jury, which seems to have been instituted in England about the middle of the twelfth century, is to determine cause for criminal prosecution. Though instituted as a means of making the local community responsible for bringing its malefactors to justice, it has come to be regarded over the centuries as a safeguard against unwarranted prosecution and, as such, was incorporated in the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, a provision that has not been made applicable to the states by the doctrine of selective incorporation; however, a correlative provision in the Texas Constitution of 1876 requires grand jury indictment for prosecution of a felony (see CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLISH LAW). The indictment is termed a “true bill” against a prisoner; a decision not to indict is termed a “no bill.”
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/jlg01
Sorry, I'm calling BS on this. You are trying to deflect this by claiming serious felonies.
In Texas, all felonies go to a grand jury. And in this particular case, the charge in question is indeed a felony.
As someone else has posted: A prosecutor may immediately seek an indictment, if someone exercises their right to an examining trial. But, that means the prosecutor must "show their hand" to a grand jury, and will have to show the evidence against Clendennen, individually.
A supposed crime with a $1,000,000 bail is not serious?
Sounds to me that they just do whatever they want, and if someone challenges them they just run the clock. While the accused suffers...or awaits justice from a jail cell.
That is not how justice in this country is supposed to work.