Breaking News: Grand Jury Actually Does Its Job

Legal types like to deride the U.S. grand jury system by saying that a prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.

Ha?

The joke being that U.S. citizens are such sheeple that they’ll just do whatever they’re told by an authority figure even when serving on a grand jury.

Which, to be fair, is more true than it should be. Grand juries really do return felony indictments way more often than they should, and often don’t seem to consider the task as particularly important.

It’s a pretty dark joke, when you think about it.

They’re basically joking that folks here are so ignorant and uninterested in the systems in which they live that they’ll just go along with anything an authority figure tells them to do.

Dark.

But lately, grand juries from L.A. to D.C. have been doing their jobs much better.

And this week a grand jury literally refused to indict what’s reportedly a salami sandwich; ok, they refused to indict the thrower of what was reportedly a salami sandwich.