Please don't make me ride the autism bicycle. That seat looks ouchy and the wheels are made of spiderwebs

Also, at the end of the day, the other GJ members would leave and I stayed behind with a clerk of courts staffer who had a document that recorded total number of indictments we voted on and the breakdown of true bills, no bills and split bills.

When I was foreperson on a GJ, I signed indictment immediately after the vote, kept indictments in a stack next to me, and turned them in to clerk when our session was done (we heard ~10 cases per day).

That's so gross.

It's totally feasible they presented the foreman with a fresh indictment and had them mark it up as if it had been voted on by the full GJ. There was a juror member as secretary who sat w/ me but he didn't do anything. All the completed indictments went from my hands to clerk to judge.

Also, I spent way more time at the courthouse as the foreman than anybody else on the jury. They would all leave when we were done for the day and I had to stay after and go over the indictments with the clerk (?) to make sure they were all complete and tallied before delivered to the judge.

Oh, that is so fucked up.

BUT -- You can do your best to expose your fellow jurors to your arguments about the system, you can annoy the fuck out of police officers and catch them lying, and if you're lucky, the prosecutor running your grand jury will be fired. Mine was 🙏🏻

When the prosecutor came back, he told me that if we had no-billed that charge, he would have quit on the spot.

Anyway. Serve on a grand jury if you're summoned to. You will be horrified. You will maybe crawl under your desk & cry when you get home. You will not receive fair compensation at all.

We wanted evidence beyond officer testimony (we never saw any evidence, the entire three months we served, except maybe one time a photo of a knife?). The prosecutor got so fed up with us, he stormed out. We voted. That charge just barely passed (I think 1 vote away from no-billing).

I more or less told him to fuck off. And he was just a gross local prosecutor, so I would not be surprised at all if feds did what Sean is suggesting.

We had another case where we were asking a lot of questions about one of the charges that was the foundation for the entire police encounter...