Mueller's Options, Short Of Indictment

By Ronald Levine (November 27, 2017, 1:58 PM EST) -- Federal grand juries normally do not issue investigative reports for public or congressional consumption. Federal grand juries vote up or down on whether probable cause exists to indict an individual or an entity. If so, the charging document, called a "bill of indictment," is "returned" and filed of public record. If not, the federal prosecutor will decline to seek a vote of the grand jury on proposed charges or, more rarely, the grand jury may vote not to return an indictment (called a "no bill"), and the matter ends there....

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