“It looks to me like grand jurors are finding their voice,” says Laurie Levenson, a former federal prosecutor and a professor at LMU Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. “The point of the grand jury in our democratic process is to have members of the community make a [charging] decision,” she adds. “That seems to be what’s happening here, even though in the past we haven’t seen much of that.”
Source: The Christian Science Monitor