A federal grand jury has declined to indict another person arrested as part of President Trump's D.C. crime surge. This was the only case we know of in which the National Guard participated in an arrest. After the grand jury declined to return an indictment, DOJ moved to dismiss the case.
Wow, Judge Box Wine is doing a bang up job there, isn't she?
* President Trump's D.C. power and money grab
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They have apparently learned their lesson and give up now after one grand jury no bill. That's an improvement.
I'd guess that they're going to try to mess with jurisdiction next via the House/Senate.
They say you can indict a ham sandwich. So this speaks volumes about the prosecutorial prowess under Trump.
Excellent
Pretty soon, the GJ will be reassembled. This time with members of the Guard themselves.
A link would help.
Is deciding to arrest people & then figure out the crimes later a bad way to Law And Order 🤔
Goddamnit! Now I've got the Law & Order theme tune in my head.
DUMB as watery 🐔💩 & that is the "trumpy dumpy NAZI REGIME" . . .
The people, when given a chance, say fuck this shit.
To be clear the people were also given a chance last November and 2/3rds said ok by either voting for him or mot voting at all so as much as fuck the Trump admin, fuck most of America as well.
iirc, the people of DC were pretty clear on their opinion of Trump even in November
I’m referring to the nation in general and not DC specifically.
Man, this is really ham sandwich’s year.
Ham is magical.
I will say that learned a lot about the true meaning of the “ham sandwich” when I learned the full quote: That grand juries will “indict a ham sandwich *in the death of a pig*”, meaning the ham sandwich is a consequence, not the crime in and of itself.
I never heard this explanation!
Well, I will say that I “learned” this on Bluesky, but doing a deeper Google dive I confess I can’t find clear evidence that my supposed “full quote” is true. Quote is attributed to Sol Wachter in 1985, but I can’t find a reference to the full quote, so buyer beware 😎
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What a waste of our tax$. Fools
I think two things are going on here. Obviously the grand juries are objecting to BS charges. But I think another aspect is that the DOJ is being purged of good lawyers and replaced w people who cant do simple things like persuade a grand jury.
Let’s go, DC!!!
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His lawyers would prefer that the case be dismissed with prejudice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Absolutely! Would it make sense for the citizen to force a trial so it could be over with no chance of the fascist regime trying to pursue new action in the future...?
This was a case in which police said someone drove onto the Mall, then scuffled with the Park Police officer who stopped him, then ran and was apprehended by DC guardsmen after a brief foot chase.
DOJ has now charged the man whose assault case was no-billed by a federal grand jury with drug possession in local court in D.C. he walked into court this afternoon to be arraigned on the charge and left in handcuffs.
This is clownish
Completely unrelated question but as a Pacer expert hopefully a quick answer... Are evidence exhibits typically uploaded to the docket? E.g. this file shows a few things - and I'd love to see the underlying seating chart they reference, but I have no idea how to find it?
Nope
Ah that's too bad. Thanks for the reply though - big fan of your reporting 👍
If not liking police is cause for a Terry stop.....everyone is in trouble.
Wait, what? Is this the sandwich guy?
DOJ has also dismissed another case brought by federal agents after the D.C. surge began, this one involving a man who police said was found asleep in his car. The police searched the car and found a handgun; the driver had a felony record.
1/6 ?
Illegal search of the vehicle?
Any local cop would've known this.
Well trained police officers certainly would know that.
PCP? Is there any actual evidence of this? (I’m guessing not since the grand jury didn’t indict)
Whose the cottonelle-soft cop who got hip-tossed by some random dude who then waltz offed away from said cop no problem? Yet another example of cops talking a big game to the peasants they rule over, but getting bodied the second things escalate with someone not going along with their BS.
Are we keeping track of the prosecutors who can't indict a ham (or salami) sandwich?
This is the way.
It would appear that DC residents aren’t going to bend a knee to the regime.
Let's hear it for the people!
Ham sandwiches finally getting a break.
So they are just fucking with people for no reason.
Indictment rates are normally extremely high -- career prosecutors simply don't go to a Grand Jury if they don't have the evidence. But now we have hacks and henchmen running the show. Good on the courts for holding the line -- where they can.
I guess we can start calling these the sandwich no bills.
womp womp
The national guard has been busy picking trash off of DC streets
So much frivolity with American tax dollars. Fascism is expensive.
"Only the best people."
New crimes Pirro will be pursuing: "Mocking the Dear Leader in word or pictures" "Disagreeing with any of his wise decisions" "Failure to raise the right arm when Dear Leader passes by" "Looking at any Trump official in a disrespectful way" "Being black or brown or non-submissive female"
So it appears that prosecutors are no longer taking the approach of “try, try again” with these? Good. And they’d be wise to start resigning if Pirro or others demand wackiness like that.
Without prejudice, meaning they can try again?
If they manage to impanel a MAGA jury in the next few years they might circle back with all the no bills
They will never empanel a MAGA grand jury, nor trial jury, in DC. Kamala Harris got (literally) 90% of the vote. The citizens of the District (me included) loathe Felon47 and his minions.
Until they come up with some made up reason to charge outside of DC... Which, is not supposed to happen but with these guys? Anything is possible
These were all "crimes" that were committed in DC, therefore must be prosecuted there.
I understand that. But aren't there also some scenarios where DOJ tries to change venue? I'm not saying it's legal or possible. I'm just saying I don't trust Trump to even try and then trust SCOTUS to strike it down
Grand juries serve for months and are pulled from the local community. The majority of people who live in DC are not white and the white population is extremely liberal. Even if they tried, the demographics of the pool of jurors would make it impossible
Our new US attorney also discovered with the Sidney Lori Reid case that there’s a thirty day clock. Tried to get a felony indictment with three different DC grand juries and a judge shut down further attempts.
Correct.
Are they now charging him with a misdemeanor?
No they dismissed the case but reserved the right to charge him again sometime in the future. Presumably they think they’ll get more favorable grand juries some day down the line (they won’t. Public outrage over these overcharged bullshit lies is only growing)
They requested dismissal without prejudice; was it granted? I believe they can bring the case later if it is dismissed without prejudice.
Cool. I believe I saw that Bondi or Porto was suggesting to do that. It would look foolish.
I'm not excited for the private military coming to Chicago. But I am excited to watch some failed indictments.
This is another reason why you shouldn’t try to get out of jury duty. We need you now more than ever. You can actually make a difference.
Hear, hear!!!
I do actually look forward to getting called but the last time I did, they ended up not needing me so they won’t call me again for another couple years
The last two times I was in court watching potential jurors ahead of me do voir dire, they didn't get to me but would've kicked me off if they had - an auto accident insurance case in NJ, and a domestic violence one where they asked if you thought cops ever lied.
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This is an incredibly expensive and dangerous tRUmp farce. Arresting Americans going about their daily lives using the National Guard and ICE with no warrants, wasting the funds to jail and prosecute them, wasting the Grand Jury time, all for NOTHING. Utter debacle.
LOL.
So how long b4 he invents a way to get around the Grand Jury process? Very likely Stephen Goebbels is working on it at this moment 🤬🦇
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The charges against Mr. Summers were based on an allegation made by one officer who was wearing a body-worn camera. That officer’s testimony was rejected by the grand jury, presumably after reviewing body-worn camera video. Hm. The old "He said, The Camera shows" argument.
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Fake president, fake law enforcement, fake prosecutions. But pardons for insurrectionists!!
But…sandwich guy is still going to trial on his misdemeanor 🤯🤯🤯
$1M per day still, right?
Womp…freaking…womp.
So much theater with these psychopaths.
Another L for Boxwine Pirro.
Making a lot of arrests does not mean anyone is committing a crime. Grand Jury doing Patriotic Duty. Let's honor the legal system when it works. Representative people of the community are speaking out for all Americans. These No bills are what Congress was meant to do.
US Attorney Franzia Redwine is showing us all how it’s done.
Strike 5 for Judge Gineene?
Why do I get the feeling it will only be a (short) matter of time before they get rid of juries entirely & just go to hand picked tribunals that will rubber stamp prison sentences? Seems as they're already doing that with deportations. Won't be a huge step for them to do the same with US citizens. 🤬
So, when does the ranting about how the communist lefties on DC grand juries are stopping this administration, begin? 🙄
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