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“He did it. He threw the sandwich.”

That’s how the defense counsel for Sean Dunn, the man who threw a sub-style sandwich at a Border Patrol officer in Washington, DC, this summer began the federal trial against him Tuesday morning.

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[-] klemptor@startrek.website 245 points 1 month ago

I cannot believe we're wasting taxpayer dollars on a ballistic hoagie attack.

[-] socsa@piefed.social 165 points 1 month ago
[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago
[-] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 10 points 1 month ago

This is so good it should be illegal.

[-] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 1 points 1 month ago

Give the DOJ(ackoffs) a week or two and it will be.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

intercontinental ballistic mayonaisse

[-] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

...take my upvote...

[-] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 78 points 1 month ago

"ballistic submarine missile" was right there

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago
[-] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[-] jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Haha being gay is bad amirite

[-] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

No, every representation of human sexuality can be beautiful (with consent that is). Just wordplay with one of the multiple terms for sub, hero, blimp, torpedo and yes, grinder.

[-] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

It's not being gay, it's being a bunch of hypocrites about being gay that deserves the ridicule

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago

I'm sure we all know the phrase that a prosecutor could get a grand jury to "indict a ham sandwich". It took prosecutors THREE Grand Juries to finally get an indictment for someone throwing that sandwich.

It's all a complete waste of time and taxpayer funds, and in any other point in history these prosecutors would have been fired immediately for incompetence at even considering an indictment in the first place, not even considering the possibility that they would try for three attempts.

[-] mercano@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago

They never got the indictment. The prosecutor had to downgrade the charges from a felony to a misdemeanor, which doesn’t have to go before a grand jury.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

I didn't even realize that, last I had heard was them putting it before the third jury, and then that there was going to be a trial.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

if a grand jury won't indict, doesn't double jeopardy apply? not a lawyer, just haven't dealt with this part of the process before

[-] austinfloyd@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A grand jury is a sort of sanity check on a charge, and does not count towards the trial. It is basically "with these facts (provided only by the prosecution), is there enough probable cause to move a case to trial?". Double jeopardy in the 5th amendment has specific protections from going to trial multiple times or from getting multiple punishments for a crime.

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

Actually, it's even stupider than that I'm pretty sure, two grand juries refused to give them an indictment for a felony charge, so they brought a way less severe misdemeanor charge because you don't have to get a grand jury to sign off on those, and that's what we're wasting this time on

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

I hope a news outlet has the boldness to run this story after one showing DHS brutality, including the taxpayer costs, and before one about SNAP, healthcare and the shutdown. This administration is well past the point of pissing on Americans while telling them it's raining.

[-] derry@midwest.social 13 points 1 month ago

Dear Lord don't you know this will lead to ICBMs! Intercontinental ballistic meatballs are nothing to be trifled with. Next they'll add mozzarella to them

[-] 0ops@piefed.zip 11 points 1 month ago

ballistic hoagie attack

Band name

[-] sudo@lemmy.today 7 points 1 month ago

It's just a shame it wasn't a lead sandwich traveling at 1500 fps

[-] milkisklim@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

If it makes you feel any better, because of the shutdown, we aren't spending money on this. \s

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