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While the old saying that a good DA/prosecutor could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich[0][1][2][3] may still be true, conviction is another matter. Which is, in all of this, probably the coldest cut of all.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/indict_a_ham_sandwich

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Wachtler

[2] https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/sol-wachtler/

[3] https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/a-grand-jury-would-indict-...

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> While the old saying that a good DA/prosecutor could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich may still be true, conviction is another matter.

This was filed as a misdemeanor case, because federal felonies require a grand jury indictment, and the grand jury declined to indict when the prosecutor tried to bring felony charges.

To be fair, they only tried to charge the thrower, and not the sandwich, so maybe the old saying might have held up with the right defendant here.

The grand jury did not indict in this case.

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