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Re:Jonathan Smith walks free after 21 years of wrongful impr... by emmelaich on Thursday April 22, 2021 @02:59AM (#26899640)
It's a reference to this quote:

> New York State chief judge Sol Wachtler was famously quoted by Tom Wolfe in The Bonfire of the Vanities that "a grand jury would 'indict a ham sandwich,' if that's what you wanted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_sandwich

Re:Jonathan Smith walks free after 21 years of wrongful impr... by peteretep on Thursday April 22, 2021 @04:57AM (#26900443)
Yes, I'm well aware. Indictment is in no way being found guilty by a jury of your peers though and has wildly different standards of evidence.