No. of Recommendations: 7
A determined prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, they say, but even with all the favorable presumptions towards the prosecutor they're not going to be able to get an indictment on charges that are time-barred.
I heard that ham sandwich line throughout my many years. And it certainly seems to be the case (no pun intended).
That is, until:
Following her 2025 confirmation as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro's office has struggled to secure indictments in multiple high-profile cases. This includes repeatedly failing to convince grand juries to approve felony charges.
Pirro's office tried three times to get a grand jury to approve a felony indictment against Sydney Lori Reid, who was accused of assaulting a federal agent during an encounter in Washington, D.C.. Each time, the grand jury refused to indict. Her office then pursued a lesser misdemeanor charge, but Reid was acquitted by a jury in October 2025.
In another case, Pirro's office dropped federal charges against Eduardo Alexander Dana, who was accused of threatening to kill President Donald Trump. A federal magistrate judge reprimanded Pirro's office after a grand jury declined to indict Dana, and the case was later dropped.
Pirro’s office has failed to secure indictments in several other cases involving threats and alleged assaults on federal officers. Reports from September 2025 indicated that grand juries had refused to return indictments in at least seven instances across five different cases initiated during the Trump administration's "crime crackdown" in D.C.
Says a lot about the quality of Trump’s appointees as well as the incompetence of the trumped up (pun intended) charges being brought forward for political, rather than legal, purposes.
