Grand jury transcripts show prosecutors pressed for new indictments in 'Broadview Six' case
Transcripts reveal a grand juror called the case weak while prosecutors sought fresh indictments after a prior no‑bill.
The first grand jury proceeding in the Broadview Six case began with a *textbook example* of forbidden prosecutorial vouching. Misconduct from the start. Just incredible stuff.
Mark Joseph Stern1985Now here is a grand juror doing the 5th Amendment proud www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
Tim Onion331I didn't expect them to literally use the word "vouch" when vouching, much less in the fucking third word!!!
Lani 🏳️⚧️124The only way you get a law school question about vouching that starts with the phrase "Matt will vouch for me" is if it's a trick question. Amazingly, this is not
Dedekind Slut97POLICE OFFICER (testifying): So the first thing we did is, we said to ourselves, "we need to entrap the suspect" (by which I mean induce him to commit the crime for the purposes of convicting him and contrary to his own disposition) and so, in order to do that we
As a career state prosecutor-where no hearsay is allowed & a judge reviews ALL GJ transcripts (including legal instructions)-I am dumbfounded by the abuses. Plus, summing up the "facts" before presenting any evidence is appalling. The AUSA is a 20-year vet, so she was trained to present this way.
Daniel Mintz35Extra amazing to use the term of art to describe the PROHIBITED THING you’re about to do
Don Zeko33He literally uses the word "vouch"!
Vee Haacke27GOOD LORT IT'S WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT
David25"Okay, Sheri, you maybe got close to the line but it's not like you SAID the word 'vouch,' right?" "Well. Uh." "..........."
Brunhilde252519Honestly gives me faith in the grand jury process and my fellow citizens. Regular people like you and me in a room with a prosecuted and go, smells like bullshit to me.
Helen Kennedy11Boutros was present for that?
goatapo.bsky.social8Yes...the You Know Me Procedure to wreck people's lives. Who knows evidence and facts.
Jesse Singal Vapes Piss8in as many words, wasn't expecting that
BRAK AND BLUE7was the government argument some BS like "well they didn't indict after the vouching, we had to kick a bunch of them off a different time we presented, so it couldn't really have been improper vouching" because you can't really get more vouchy than that was
Art Martin7holy fu*k--grand juror asks "do you get unlimited tries"? Skiba: "Second time's the charm" Mecklenberg: "I hope your mind isn't made up so I have to have more tries..." Ham Sandwich: WTF. How come the burden of proof is always lower against me?
Gary L. Sanders6👀 😳 someone with a law license needs disciplined.
Jimmy5The thing that enrages me is you just know this has been going on for YEARS and she is just now getting caught. I'm sure at first it was cautious insinuation and didn't work up to actually saying the word "vouch" for a while but once she did with no consequences it kept happening until today.
commonphoole.bsky.social3Even used the word vouching. Looks deliberate doesn't it.
Breathe Free3These officers of the court need to be forced to seek another profession/career.
mjk4mj.bsky.social2Trump has no respect for the law. He wants this turd to be AG. 2025: nysba.org/new-york-sta...
The grand jury transcripts that led to the Broadview Six indictment (and eventually our charges being dropped) are finally public. Bon appetit.
Kat Abughazaleh1286Jokes aside, as you’re reading this, think about how many bogus cases have been brought forward under this administration. Then ask yourself how many of them might have had this exact same behavior in the grand jury process. This is bigger than our case, and the administration knows that.
dustwords.bsky.social35“JUROR: I heard this case like last week and I thought it was a crock of shit then and I still think it is.”
hurin-thalion.bsky.social29“GRAND JURY: Couldn't he have stopped? MS. MECKLENBURG: Couldn't he have stopped? GRAND JURY: If he is afraid of running over people, isn't the right thing to do to stop?”
EG9Mecklenberg did an absolute slop job. Standing up and protesting doesn't mean you get a misdemeanor. It flies in the face of what the First Amendment is all about. I don't think this will come back at you in any form now.
Sue 🧶🐈6JFC, I only got to the top of page 4 and it reads like Trump sounds. What a fucking clown show.
TheElderLaws5Oh no. We're on page FOUR and we've already got sanctionable misconduct. Prosecutor literally vouching on page FOUR. JFC.
Joe3Now Sue back, find something, anything and Sue back, it’s their tactic and they are wholly unprepared for it.
Cast Adrift 🫘2At this rate, all the MAGA lawyers eventually will be disbarred.
JUST IN: 111 former federal prosecutors who served in the Northern District of Illinois have issued a statement about Chicago U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros' office, expressing concern about an exodus of talent, grand jury irregularities, collapsed cases and a breach of trust with judges:
Jon Seidel67The signatories are below, in this post and the post that follows. The organizers say each person signed as an individual and private citizen. They add that, "there are myriad reasons why some [former federal prosecutors] might have chosen not to add their names."
Randy Herman66You know it's serious when they got more than 100 lawyers to agree to the same language
Kate Lavery10I worked with some of these prosecutors, and I can understand how angry and heartbroken they must be at the destruction of what used to be a flagship US Attorney's Office. Grateful to them for speaking out publicly.
Michael7Only 111? And why only former prosecutors? No current ones have a problem?
Texas Twinkie5I appreciate their concern—3 years after we knew what Project 2025 was all about. Nice letter. Now what are they going to do?
Paul Alan Levy5It matters when elite lawyers speak about prosecutorial misconduct
NEW: The grand jury transcript in the "Broadview Six" case has been released. Here's where the prosecutor said "Mea culpa, I talked to two grand jurors outside of the grand jury room, so I need to put it on the record." All the charges were dropped, btw: 1/ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Mueller, She Wrote223For more, check out this thread from @klasfeldreports.com END/ bsky.app/profile/klas...
rhonnie-72.bsky.social70Gawd. I'm an accountant and I know prosecutors are prohibited from speaking to the grand jurors in their case. Is this whole regime a contest to see who can perpetrate the stupidest / most heinous crimes?
Bill Buchman39I'm no lawyer, but isn't it mea (not "mia") culpa?
Julie Jones27You're a federal prosecutor - if you managed to meet the job requirements. Why did you do a thing you knew was wrong, and explain why you shouldn't be disbarred?Putting it on the record later does not absolve you.
Dolorosa Santos22"I broke the law, but the law won."
A Person Of Real Intellectual Influence12“Mia Culpa” was my stripper name
MTfromCC8He also “needs” to be on the receiving end of some professional discipline. After being terminated by DOJ.
Editor's Note5Can I get a large order of unlimited tries to go with my crock of shit?
kath-55-1.bsky.social4“Mia culpa”? Must be Italian
StevenErick❌👑📎4Thanks Allison!! Too many have ignored this case as well as Broadview.
Robeleader🏴☠️4Why pass the bar when you can just go to clown college?
Dr. Geoffrey M, Cromulent Cruach3That reads like AI when you point out its last response was utterly untrue.
RckyMtnMn2I did something I know I wasn't supposed to do but went ahead and did it anyway.
"GRAND JUROR: I heard this case like last week and I thought it was a crock of shit then and I still think it is."
Laminariales723It's pretty hilarious that the DOJ is getting heckled by Grand Jurors as if they were bombing at an open mic stand up. "GET NEW MATERIAL!"
Rob Grant27Everyone talks about your civic duty to vote but, please, do not sleep on your duty to serve on a jury especially a grand jury. Absolutely essential to democracy.
Randy Herman26No exaggeration, this is very much what grand juries are for from time immemorial: to call the government on its bullshit
Bill Virginia Beach9When your behavior is so egregious that Dick Durbin actually fires you instead of writing a strongly worded letter about how disappointed he is
My vouching T-Shirt in Thunderdome4My “ex parte communications regarding vouching to the grand jury members, letting them know they are welcome to leave if they don’t want to convict using the same week old crock of shit” T-shirt has Grand Jurors asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
vILLAGE GENIOUS2this is the actual median voter I think
Nick SomethingGreek2If any of these ratfuckers still has a law license after this the entire profession should revolt….
"Do you have unlimited tries?" grand juror to Trump DOJ prosecutor in the now-dismissed "Broadview Six" case. Prosecutors failed to disclose that the grand jury "no true billed" the first indictment. Remarkable exchange
Adam Klasfeld493Grand juror pressed the prosecutor on whether there are "any new actual facts" on the second attempt: "I heard this case like last week and I thought it was a crock of shit then and I still think it is."
David Marx62> "Are you just going to keep us here forever until we grant your indictment?"
beloved chungoose39that... that is definitely not the saying, mr. skiba
Mark E. Poasts21Prosecutors can enter the Konami Code for 30 shots at a true bill
oqx 🎷15"The second time is the charm." What a smug fucking asshole. These guys need to be sanctioned bigly or disbarred.
Nick13DOJ: Your Honor, it's ok, I had another guy
𝕞𝕒𝕕𝕝𝕪 𝕞𝕪𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕗 🐈11Well it’s a perfect illustration of how fully incompetent this DOJ is. I find it amusing — tragic, but amusing.
Lainie4This is nuts…. I’ve served on a federal grand jury and I can’t imagine talking to the AUSAs outside the courtroom. Other than a nod hello if I saw them in the hallway. Good on the jurors honestly.
Steve TF4What the fuck is this—is this actually a JUSTICE system of some sort? I don’t fully understand—are these PROFESSIONALS—did they go to LAW school? In a CIVIL SOCIETY? Guess not.
Huh…2She had no idea how much contempt the question conveyed
grand juror either wondering if the prosecutor accidentally indicted the wrong party or planning a crusade against crossing guards
A. Sharpie81Grand Juror: "What if they're driving an actual clown car, instead of just clowns driving a regular car? Would that be grounds for indictment?" Mecklenburg: "What kind of shoes were they wearing? That's the issue at hand here."
Jon-in-NYC18I so want to take that juror out for a drink. They sound like the lawyer in this exchange.
crackedemerald.bsky.social6get bro out of the kitchen, he's NOT cooking
Joxtapositionkun3That mecklemore sounds like an idiot
‘A Crock of Shit’: Amid Misconduct Allegations, Broadview Six Transcripts Offer Rare Window into Grand Jury talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-crock...
zzz221If it's a crock of shit you must acquit
Josh Marshall832/ It is, unsurprisingly just as bad as the judge said. Basically they kept trying to force the grand jury to serve up an indictment even though they made clear that they didn't think she had a case. That led her to tell the grand jurors not to worry about the evidence or lack of evidence but ...
Keith Avery14I recently stood in front of a judge during voir dire and said 'Well, no, I can't take a cop's word for thing as they are one of the only professions that needs to wear a body camera to make sure they don't break the law' I was excused
Ariana Niko8One reason trust keeps collapsing is that people are constantly told to accept conclusions without seeing the underlying evidence. Releasing records is rarely a bad place to start.
Andy Olsen2Hereinafter to be known as the Crock of Shit DOJ.
