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Hutchinson indictment rejection tests prosecutorial duties, Kirschner tells Cohen

The Legal Breakdown discussion examines grand juries refusing charges and the remedies available to people subjected to vindictive prosecution.

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0:20Kirschner says a grand jury rejected proposed charges that Hutchinson lied to Congress about her White House service.
3:40Kirschner says grand juries have returned 18 refusals to indict targets of the Trump administration's Justice Department.
5:54Prosecutors' ethical duties require pursuing justice rather than advancing cases without sufficient evidence, Kirschner explains.
8:40Kirschner discusses remedies for vindictive prosecution, citing an attorney-fee order in Chicago's "Broadview Six" case.
10:10Kirschner argues that prosecutors pursuing these cases should face professional sanctions.

Prosecutors have duties beyond trying to secure an indictment. That is the central point Glenn Kirschner develops in Brian Tyler Cohen's Legal Breakdown discussion about a grand jury's reported refusal to charge Cassidy Hutchinson.

Kirschner, a former prosecutor, says the proposed charges concerned allegations that Hutchinson lied to Congress about her White House service. He presents the rejection as an example of ordinary citizens refusing to approve a case prosecutors put before them.

Cohen asks why that refusal matters, invoking the familiar saying that a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich. Kirschner says grand juries have returned 18 "no bills" against people targeted by the Trump administration's Justice Department. He argues that repeated refusals deserve scrutiny because prosecutors ordinarily have little difficulty obtaining an indictment.

The discussion then moves from the grand jury room to prosecutors' responsibilities. Kirschner explains that their ethical obligation is to pursue justice, not simply push cases forward without sufficient evidence. He characterizes the prosecutions under discussion as vindictive and argues that the lawyers responsible should face professional sanctions.

For readers drawn by the video's dramatic title, the substance is this examination of how proposed charges can be stopped and what accountability might follow. Later, Kirschner discusses possible remedies for people subjected to vindictive prosecution, citing a Chicago case involving the "Broadview Six" in which, he says, attorney fees were ordered paid.

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