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The Blog for Saturday, April 09, 2005

Indicting a Ham Sandwich

    In the Dyer indictment, the "Jeb!" controlled FDLE and the GOoPer prosecutor certainly had their way with the deep thinkers on the Dyer grand jury. This brain trust actually
    criticized the media for repeating the oft-used phrase suggesting a grand jury "would indict a ham sandwich" if requested by a prosecutor. Grand jurors said they took their obligation "very seriously" and used their own judgment.
    "Grand jury in Dyer case slams other officials". The grand jury took its obligation so "seriously" that it went out and, well, indicted a ham sandwich.

    To be fair, the grand jury was lead by the nose by a partisan GOoPer prosecutor and FDLE agents doing "Jeb!"'s bidding. In an effort to expose the manipulation, Dyer's legal team asked the court
    to force prosecutors to release the instructions given to the grand jurors for their deliberations. Dyer said [Republican prosecutor] King's interpretation of the state election law was wrong, so grand jurors relied on flawed information when issuing their indictments.

    "The state prosecutor incorrectly instructed the grand jury on what the law is. This indictment is flawed, their interpretation and the manner in which they instructed the grand jury was flawed, and we think we'll win this on that basis," Dyer said.

    [Chief Judge] Perry said he didn't have jurisdiction to rule on Dyer's request because the case has been assigned to a judge from a different judicial circuit to avoid a conflict of interest.
    "Grand jury in Dyer case slams other officials".

    Seems like a perfectly reasonable request - really, all Dyer wants to know is whether, in going after rising Dem star Dyer, the partisan GOoPer prosecutor gave "intructions" to the grand jury that would essentially have required them, ahem, to "'indict a ham sandwich' if requested by a prosecutor." It is fair to suspect that precisely such instructions were given, and that is why the GOoPer prosecutor won't reveal his "instructions to the" grand jury. If the prosecutor had nothing to hide, he would make public his "instructions".

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