It is highly unusual for prosecutors to fail even once to obtain an indictment from a grand jury given the way the process is stacked in favor of the government.

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    It’s only a matter of time until they say “we don’t need a grand jury”
    People will point out that it’s illegal.
    They’ll bring the charges anyway.
    Nothing meaningful will be done about it.

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      I believe the prosecutor as already said he was going move forward with charging her, so yep we already there.

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    This is the best step. Right now they’re arresting anyone and everyone on blown up charges. Once they realize they can’t get convictions or even charges in a lot of these cases?

    Well, that’s what ICE’s completely fly by night shithole concentration camps are for.

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    After an immigration agent pushed Ms. Reid against a wall, the prosecutors said, she struggled, kicking and flailing her arms as an F.B.I. agent, Eugenia Bates, rushed in to help. During the scuffle, Ms. Reid “forcefully pushed” Agent Bates’s arm against the cement wall, prosecutors said, causing lacerations on the back side of her left hand.

    God, acab and a half with this one. What in the fuuuuck…