A good prosecutor can get a grand jury to indicit a ham sandwich. This was absolutely not a good prosecutor in any sense of the word. As with all Trump appointees she is an incompetent fascist lackey. Without Trump she wouldn’t get a job taking notes at a small town ambulance chaser, this is by design.
“If you can put a pig on trial, you can put ham on trial!”
Much greater chance, as we’ve seen with his other enemies, that he’ll find himself dealing with his finances getting turned over with a fine-tooth comb.
A question about double jeopardy: Now that he’s acquitted, this guy can’t face the exact same charge again. But could the prosecution find some other crime that could be contorted to match this incident, and charge him with that?
I laughed.
It could be done in theory but it’s not obvious to me what that could be? Like are you going to prosecute him for buying a subway sandwich with intent to use it as a weapon?
Yup and if he is a naturalized citizen (he’s not AFAIK) then you bet they are looking for anything that could be used to revoke his citizenship.
Bolognious assault?
No, but if the protestor went out, bought a cake and then threw it at the guy, he could be liable for a tort(e).
Pretty good bet that somebody somewhere is working on an amendment to that law to take that inconvenient word forcible out.
I went into Subway last week and almost got an assort and buttery.
Well, there you go. A crime was committed under 18 U.S. Code § 1361.
“Whoever willfully injures or commits any depredation against any property of the United States, or of any department or agency thereof”
Getting onion on his badge is a clear depredation of property belonging to the U.S. government. Who will take seriously a Border Patrol agent with a stained badge smelling of onion? They should’ve “thrown the book” at him and made sure he did the 1 year max sentence.
Alternately, if ultrasensitive tests of the sandwich and/or its condiments had yielded even the faintest trace of fentanyl, an assault with a deadly weapon charge could’ve stuck.
The sandwich guy is lucky that the prosecution was so inept.
If they hadn’t tried for Felony in the first place, probably nobody would have heard of this, and his lawyer (assuming he had one) probably would have advised a guilty plea.
I think it was the initial overreach that saved him.
“A Hero Ain’t Nothing But a Sandwich”?
“The Count of Monte Cristo”
Not the wurst pun, but far from the breast.
Is it contemptuous to sing “Greatest American Hero” in a courtroom?
It’s contemptuous to sing it anywhere.
Believe you? Or not?
I laughed.