On May 22, I presented an indictment for confirmation against Slobodan Milosevic and four others, charging them with crimes against humanity - specifically murder, deportation and persecutions, and with violations of the laws and customs of war.
"It is highly unlikely that the U.S. attorney's office will present multiple indictments to a grand jury in the same matter over a two-day period".
The present indictment "does not reflect any evidence from exhumations presently under way in Belgrade," she said, referring to bodies that had been taken to Serbia from Kosovo and were recently discovered.
The present indictment is based exclusively on crimes committed since the beginning of 1999 in Kosovo.
But in a bitingly worded decision, Judge Herrick described the case against Signature as "complex and unwieldy," noting that prosecutors had presented four succeeding indictments to two grand juries over 15 months, often changing the specific counts charged against the Signature owners and employees and bringing new facts to bear against them.
Grand juries hear evidence in cases, and the 23 members of the secret panels vote on whether or not to approve indictments presented by a prosecutor.
Prosecutors asked for, and were given, until Monday to present an indictment.
Indeed, it's hard to argue that, say, the Clinton and Reagan presidencies present an indictment against the current system.
Christie told the delegates that he, a famously truculent former federal prosecutor, would present an indictment against Hillary Clinton, and they would get to judge whether she was guilty or innocent.
A special prosecutor investigating the worst abuses by the authoritarian party that governed for more than seven decades said in an interview that he would present an indictment next week against former President Luis Echeverría.
