Jury nullification

Jury nullification is a fancy term for what it’s called when juries — or, in this case, grand juries — say no. It doesn’t happen very often, which is why you may have never heard of it. The old line is that a good prosecutor could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. Not so fast. Not in the District of Columbia right now, where a federal grand jury refused to indict a man for throwing a sandwich at a federal agent. It was one of three cases where a grand jury in D.C. refused to return felony...

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