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‘It smelled of onions and mustard,’ Border Patrol officer hit by sandwich in DC testifies (www.cnn.com)
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“He did it. He threw the sandwich.”

That’s how the defense counsel for Sean Dunn, the man who threw a sub-style sandwich at a Border Patrol officer in Washington, DC, this summer began the federal trial against him Tuesday morning.

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[–] 251 points 1 year ago (27 children)

I cannot believe we're wasting taxpayer dollars on a ballistic hoagie attack.

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  • [–] 171 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Assault with a deli weapon

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I'm sure we all know the phrase that a prosecutor could get a grand jury to "indict a ham sandwich". It took prosecutors THREE Grand Juries to finally get an indictment for someone throwing that sandwich.

    It's all a complete waste of time and taxpayer funds, and in any other point in history these prosecutors would have been fired immediately for incompetence at even considering an indictment in the first place, not even considering the possibility that they would try for three attempts.

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  • [–] 59 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They never got the indictment. The prosecutor had to downgrade the charges from a felony to a misdemeanor, which doesn’t have to go before a grand jury.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    if a grand jury won't indict, doesn't double jeopardy apply? not a lawyer, just haven't dealt with this part of the process before

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    A grand jury is a sort of sanity check on a charge, and does not count towards the trial. It is basically "with these facts (provided only by the prosecution), is there enough probable cause to move a case to trial?". Double jeopardy in the 5th amendment has specific protections from going to trial multiple times or from getting multiple punishments for a crime.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Actually, it's even stupider than that I'm pretty sure, two grand juries refused to give them an indictment for a felony charge, so they brought a way less severe misdemeanor charge because you don't have to get a grand jury to sign off on those, and that's what we're wasting this time on

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  • [–] 81 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    "ballistic submarine missile" was right there

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    torpedos away

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    ICE agents prefer Grinder

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Haha being gay is bad amirite

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Hi, wanted to ask how you want me to handle this report? https://i.ibb.co/rGRqTJTt/1.png

    You reported me, on my own instance, to myself... guess I'm not sure what you want me to do here? Do you think "hostility" is a violation of my instance's sidebar rules? If not, can you tell me which of my own rules I've broken? I'm eager to hear your response. :)

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    I hope a news outlet has the boldness to run this story after one showing DHS brutality, including the taxpayer costs, and before one about SNAP, healthcare and the shutdown. This administration is well past the point of pissing on Americans while telling them it's raining.

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