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An indictment is merely an accusation delivered by a sham grand jury proceeding.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Bill of Rights. (From the public domain.) An indictment is merely an accusation delivered by an unfairly slanted grand jury proceeding. The least that prosecutors can do is to clearly acknowledge that indictments are no more than that.  Both under the current and prior presidential administrations, the United States Justice Department has issued a flurry of press releases about federal prosecutions, convictions, sentences, and even acquittals (see additional acquittal press releases here).  Fortunately, many Justice Department press releases about indictments remind readers that the defendant is presumed innocent, including this line from a Justice Department press release that a listserv member recently posted: "An indictment is merely an accusation...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on July 30, 2009 (boomark / email).