Follis, half-joking, told me, "The law was so wide open you could indict a bologna sandwich".
31, 1999, article that portrayed Mr. Starr as having decided he could indict a sitting president.
The old saying is that you could indict a ham sandwich, but apparently they couldn't indict Awlaki.
"At this point, they could indict a ham sandwich".
However if the prosecution is successful the fine could rise considerably as the prosecutor could indict Uber for facilitating illegal taxis for each trip an Uber driver is convicted of making.
Similarly, it could indict the President and other American officials for, say, carrying out a retaliatory bombing raid against terrorists.
Two, he could indict someone like Michael Cohen or David Pecker and name Donald Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator and could certainly later issue an indictment of Trump.
"Our mandate was to try to indict everybody we could indict, not everybody we suspected," he said.
Even though a grand jury may decide not to indict, a prosecutor could still bring the defendant to trial if they think they have a strong enough case.
(Hence the saying a prosecutor could get a grand jury to "indict a ham sandwich").
