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So US Attorney General Jeanine Pirro’s office has failed to bring a
Grand Jury indictment against that guy who threw a sandwich at FBI
agents. They also tried three times to indict another guy who had been protesting loudly against law-enforcement officeres at a different
incident, and have failed with that as well.
It is normally the expectation that a Grand Jury “will indict a ham sandwich” -- they will do pretty much whatever the prosecutor wants
them to do, since it’s not a trial and there are no arguments brought
on behalf of the (prospective) defendants -- the prosecutor is in
total control of everything presented to the jury. If you can’t get
them to agree with you in that situation, when can you do it? But
Pirro, it appears, isn’t even competent enough to achieve that.
Maybe she should go back to playing a judge or lawyer or whatever she
pretended to be on TV -- she clearly can’t manage it in real life.
So now the worst the Government can do is charge these two guys with misdemeanour offences, with a maximum penalty of no more than a year
in jail.
I imagine convictions in jury trials on these charges will likely be
hard to achieve, for the same reasons.
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