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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe single chart that shows that federal grand juries indict 99.99 percent of the time
The single chart that shows that federal grand juries indict 99.99 percent of the timeBy Zachary A. Goldfarb November 24, 2014
Grand juries, at least at the federal level, almost always vote to indict people accused by prosecutors of a crime.
As you can see in the chart above, federal prosecutors pursued over 160,000 cases against defendants in 2009-2010 (the last period for which there is data), and grand juries only voted not to return an indictment in 11. Prosecutors decided not to pursue charges in thousands of cases for a host of other reasons, such as weak evidence or other authorities were pursuing the case.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/11/24/the-single-chart-that-shows-that-grand-juries-indict-99-99-percent-of-the-time/?utm_term=.15e3ae0db380
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The single chart that shows that federal grand juries indict 99.99 percent of the time (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Aug 2017
OP
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)1. And the 64,000 dollar question is
W H O
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)2. Could be Kushner
meeting with the Russians to subvert our election process maybe?
Or BLOTUS covering up the same?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)3. Lock them all up!
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)4. LOCK THEM UP!
Indeed!
fierywoman
(7,694 posts)5. YEEE--HAAHHH!!!