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 ...

IN THE PAST SEVERAL WEEKS, grand juries in the District of Columbia and Los Angeles have rejected at least seven attempts by ...

Emergency Plans, Talks Homeless Census Numbers | SUNRISE People sometimes ask me whether I see any guardrails between ...

District attorneys now have so much influence on grand juries,” retired judge Sol Wachtler told the New York Daily News in 1985, “that, by and large, they could get them to indict a ham sandwich.” ...

It’s a well-worn cliche in the legal world that prosecutors have so much clout in the grand jury room that they could indict a ham sandwich. The currency of this quote only soared in value when the ...