All posts tagged "Grand Jury"

Grand juries are typically willing to “indict a ham sandwich,” a Republican judge famously said. But recently in Washington, D.C., in the case of a man who allegedly threw a sandwich at an immigration officer, a grand jury declined to indict.

That failed felony indictment and at least six similar cases signal a pattern of resistance to Donald Trump, experts said, citing opposition to what citizens see as overreach by an administration attempting to curb protest.

“The pattern of grand jury refusals indicates an emerging civil jury revolt against Trump-era federal prosecutions,” said Chad Cummings, who teaches law at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Fla....

Two victims of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein attacked President Donald Trump's administration in letters to the court where grand jury testimony in the case remains sealed, according to CNN.

The victims, who remained anonymous, both filed letters with the court Monday, "condemning the Justice Department’s request to unseal grand jury testimony" and citing a lack of respect toward them by Trump and the DOJ.

“Dear United States, I wish you would have handled and would handle the whole ‘Epstein Files’ with more respect towards and for the victims," one woman wrote. "I am not some pawn in your political warfare. What you have done and continue to do is eating at me day after day as you help to perpetuate this story indefinitely."...

Jack Smith in recent weeks has been using a Miami grand jury to hear evidence against Donald Trump in the classified documents probe, and all indications are that the special counsel is likely to try the case against the former president in South Florida.

But legal experts warn that the region is a historically is a tough place to secure convictions in federal cases against politicians and celebrities, The Messenger reports, noting that “Trump is both.”

Richard Gregorie, a former Miami-based federal prosecutor, told The Messenger that Trump enjoys far more support in South Florida than in Washington D.C....

A grand jury has indicted a school superintendent and three others in connection with the rape of a teenage girl last year in Steubenville, Ohio.

Florida State Attorney Angela Corey decided Monday morning not to use a grand jury for the Trayvon Martin case, overturning a decision made by her predecessor, according to The Orlando Sentinel.

A Florida state attorney announced Tuesday morning his decision for a grand jury to investigate the Trayvon Martin case.