There’s a facetious saying in legal circles about the ease with which prosecutors can secure indictments in grand jury cases: You can get a grand jury to “indic

There’s a facetious saying in legal circles about the ease with which prosecutors can secure indictments in grand jury cases: You can get a grand jury to “indict a ham sandwich.” The legal aphorism has long been attributed to Sol Wachtler, former chief judge of New York’s Court of Appeals, based on a piece that appeared in the New York Daily News in January 1985. Mr. Wachtler told the paper that the state should scrap the grand jury system for bringing criminal indictments. The piece summarized his view, with brief quotes: “district attorneys now have so much influence on grand juries that ‘by and large’ they could get them to ‘indict a ham sandwich.’” Mr. Wachtler became even more firmly linked to the saying two years later, when Tom Wolfe, a classmate of the judge at Washington and Lee University, credited him with the “ham sandwich” line in “The Bonfire of the Vanities.” From https://www.wsj.com/articles/indict-a-ham-sandwich-remains-on-the-menu-for-judges-prosecutors-1527863063#:~:text=There's%20a%20facetious%20saying%20in,Counsel%20Robert%20Mueller's%20Russia%20probe https://www.wsj.com/articles/indict-a-ham-sandwich-remains-o.... I remember hearing it on Law and Order!