# Grand Juries: no true bills -- anyone keeping track? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 9, 2025, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grand-juries-no-true-bills-anyone-keeping-track/1023807 "2025-10-09T01:54:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grand-juries-no-true-bills-anyone-keeping-track/1023807/1 "2025-10-09T01:54:51Z")
Is anyone keeping track of how many No True Bills have been produced by grand juries for the Bondi DoJ? News reports today that there’ve been two such cases in Chicago: > **[Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters (3)](https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-two-chicago-area-ice-protesters)** > > Charges were dropped against two Chicago-area protesters accused of assaulting law enforcement agents after a grand jury declined to indict them. A Law Fare article from a month ago lists six cases in DC and mentions more in LA from earlier in the year. It links to a LA Times article, but that doesn’t give total numbers of failed indictments. > **[The Grand Jury Strikes Back](https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-grand-jury-strikes-back)** > > In rejecting indictments that overcharge, grand juries are returning to their constitutional mission of preventing government overreach. The article also says that in 2010 (the most recent year they could find data) only 11 out of 162,000 attempted federal indictments were turned down. Looks like the DoJ has already exceeded that total. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grand-juries-no-true-bills-anyone-keeping-track/1023807/2 "2025-10-09T08:38:33Z")
There’s hope for the ham sandwich, yet. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grand-juries-no-true-bills-anyone-keeping-track/1023807/3 "2025-10-09T13:20:18Z")
ISTM that this would be an effective education avenue for those trying to push back. Make sure people know that if they’re empaneled for a GJ, they have this responsibility. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grand-juries-no-true-bills-anyone-keeping-track/1023807/4 "2025-10-09T13:53:49Z")
It’s good to be reminded that juries are one of the checks against state power. A grand jury can refuse to indict, and a (petit) jury can refuse to convict. ---
**Author:** ![CoolHandCox](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coolhandcox/32/16233_2.png) [@CoolHandCox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoolHandCox)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grand-juries-no-true-bills-anyone-keeping-track/1023807/5 "2025-10-09T15:23:02Z")
Literally. “[I did it, I threw the sandwich](https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/crime/prosecutors-drop-felony-charge-alleged-dc-sandwich-thrower-with-simple-assault-after-grand-jury-refusal-sean-dunn-sandwich-guy-jeanine-pirro/65-841fcc7b-f558-40fd-8353-2b977c2bcbd2)” > Federal prosecutors filed a lesser misdemeanor charge on Thursday just days after a grand jury **declined to indict a D.C. man on a felony count for throwing a sandwich at a federal agent**. > > The move is a tacit acknowledgement by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office that prosecutors were unlikely to convince another grand jury to indict 37-year-old Sean Dunn, who was arrested earlier this month for allegedly throwing a hoagie at a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grand-juries-no-true-bills-anyone-keeping-track/1023807/6 "2025-10-09T15:32:39Z")
Yes. That was one of the six listed in the LawFare article I cited in the OP.