"HK" wrote in message
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In the criminal justice system, as you know, there are steps that have to
be completed before a trial takes place, and among these is a grand jury
proceeding.

Now, unfortunately, many grand juries are little more than sessions that
rubber stamp whatever a prosecutor wishes, but not all are that way.

In some jurisdictions, parties to a civil suit have to go through some
sort of arbitration before a trial can be scheduled.


Whatever. I hope the woman and her lawyer in Tom's case were laughed out of
the courtroom, along with a stern admonishment by the judge.

Eisboch