Recap of the Broadview 6 grand jury: — WEEK 1: Government tries to indict protesters for impeding a police car. Jurors ask why the cop isn't being charged for driving into them instead. No bill. — WEEK 2: Government presents same exact argument. Jurors aren't having it. [continued in next skeet]
Mecklenburg then told that grand juror "have a good evening" and "excuse yourself."
— WEEK 2 [cont'd]: Juror asks if they get "unlimited tries," calls it a "crock of shit" and walks out, after the prosecutor says "excuse yourself." No bill. — WEEK 3: Government admits to talking grand jurors into changing their mind in the hallway outside of court! Indicted over protestations. Some notes: — Prosecutors aren't allowed to vouch for the credibility of their cases without evidence, so they can't say "trust me fellow lawyer here, he wouldn't bring a bad indictment." The third word out of the prosecutors mouth is literally the word "vouch." — The police car was unmarked. So what does this mean? Say you're the president and wanted to indict an enemy but pesky grand juries simply won't do it. The president can just insist prosecutors spam grand juries until they return an indictment. If you skip grand juries like this, the president can personally indict anyone. The idea that this just happened to the Broadview 6 — forcing grand juries to indict by cajoling them in an elevator, vouching to the grand jury, and telling "no" votes to leave if they don't want to indict — is nuts. It's probably happening everywhere. And it means the law as we know it is dead. The law is salvageable, though, if these people face punishment. They dragged my family through hell despite a jury of our peers saying repeatedly they wouldn't indict protesters. A perversion of justice like this needs to be met with real justice for the prosecutors who broke the law.