The common wisdom is that given the nature of grand juries, a prosecutor could get one to indict a ham sandwich. In this case, it appears that Earle found one which indicted a cartoon of a ham sandwich. If you read through this Austin American—Statesman article, you'll see that when it became obvious that the original Tom DeLay conspiracy indictment (covering , by the way, conduct identical to that engaged in by the Texas Dems in 2002) was fatally flawed because it predated the Texas law making election conspiracies criminal, Ronnie Earle worked  to figure out how to continue his crusade against DeLay. The first panel had been released. He needed, another. He empaneled another. It, refused to indict DeLay on  Earle's new theory of money laundering. He hid the fact that they returned a "no bill", something that normally is public record. Never daunted by failure, Earle empaneled a third grand jury panel,  (making this, I think, the 8th  or 9th grand...(Read Full Post)