Pastrami..

 

 In a bid to make prosecutors more accountable for their actions, Chief Judge Sol Wachtler has proposed that the state scrap the grand jury system of bringing criminal indictments. 

Wachtler, who became the state’s top judge, said district attorneys now have so much influence on grand juries that “by and large” they could get them to “indict a ham sandwich.”

The New York Times noted that Wachtler believed grand juries “operate more often as the prosecutor’s pawn than the citizen’s shield.” That belief that prosecutors can get grand juries to do whatever they want them to do.

The Jewish judge “said he regrets that he didn’t say ‘pastrami’ sandwich, adding that he may (surely) have been misquoted about ‘ham. Just a thought.