{"id":4326,"date":"2025-02-22T12:49:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T12:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/a-grand-jury-indicted-eric-adams-amici-reminds-judge-mulling-motion-to-dismiss-the-case\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T12:49:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T12:49:48","slug":"a-grand-jury-indicted-eric-adams-amici-reminds-judge-mulling-motion-to-dismiss-the-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/a-grand-jury-indicted-eric-adams-amici-reminds-judge-mulling-motion-to-dismiss-the-case\/","title":{"rendered":"A Grand Jury Indicted Eric Adams, Amici Reminds Judge Mulling Motion to Dismiss the Case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Neither the President of the United States nor the Department of Justice alone can initiate a prosecution, counsel for former U.S. Attorneys reminded the judge overseeing the Eric Adams criminal case\u2014only a grand jury can do that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>\u201cUnder the Constitution neither the President nor the Department of Justice can institute a criminal prosecution,\u201d the letter to U.S. District Court Judge Dale Ho of the Southern District of New York states. \u201cOnly a grand jury impaneled by a federal judge can commence a criminal case by filing an indictment. By returning an indictment, the grand jury announces its finding that probable cause exists to believe that the defendant committed a federal offense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neither the President of the United States nor the Department of Justice alone can initiate a prosecution, counsel for former U.S. Attorneys reminded the judge overseeing the Eric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3589,4767,294,299,3588,2692,3341,423,392,298,4768,4376],"class_list":["post-4326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-adams","tag-amici","tag-case","tag-dismiss","tag-eric","tag-grand","tag-indicted","tag-judge","tag-jury","tag-motion","tag-mulling","tag-reminds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}