In this case, it appears that an FBI agent swung at one Lori Reid and missed, skinning her knuckles on a brick wall, so the prosecutors decided to indict Ms. Reid for assaulting an officer.
Gee, I cannot imagine why the grand Jury declined to indict.
Federal prosecutors on Monday reduced the charges against a woman accused last month of assaulting an F.B.I. agent during a protest against immigration officials in Washington, refiling her case as a misdemeanor after they were unable to persuade three grand juries over a month to indict her with a felony.
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It is highly unusual for prosecutors to fail even once — let alone three times — to obtain an indictment from a grand jury given the way the process is stacked in favor of the government. And the move by the prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington to recast the proceeding against the woman, Sidney Lori Reid, as a low-level misdemeanor case suggested that they had overcharged it from the beginning.
Prosecutors almost never go in front of grand juries without obtaining indictments because they are in control of the information grand jurors hear and defendants are not allowed to have their lawyers in the room as evidence is presented.
But in a brief submission filed to Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey in Federal District Court in Washington, the prosecutors in Ms. Reid’s case acknowledged the extraordinary: that they had failed three times to secure an indictment within the 30 days given to them to do so after Ms. Reid’s arrest.
The reduction of the charges against Ms. Reid also came after federal prosecutors failed to indict several protesters in Los Angeles after evidence challenging the government’s narrative emerged.
We really need to make sure that everyone on the law enforcement side of this case are never allowed to work as peace officers or lawyers ever again.
Or, we could go with James Thurber's solutions, and have the Todal Gleep them.
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