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26 Aug 2008, 10:50 am
This it what Sol Wachtler spoke about when he said the prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich. [read post]
13 Jan 2009, 10:59 pm
It's now up to him to decide whether he is going to be a leader, to return the New York Court of Appeals to a position of national prominence and to assert itself as a court that reflects a strong and independent state jurisprudence, as it did under Sol Wachtler, or whether it will be a rubber stamp, toeing the line of federal constitutional law, abandoning the state's once-strong position on individual rights and freedoms, and elevating the speed of… [read post]
19 Jul 2021, 3:56 am
First, there’s former Chief Judge Sol Wachtler’s quip that a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich. [read post]
24 Oct 2014, 5:35 am
As Sol Wachtler famously noted, if a prosecutor so desired, he could indict a ham sandwich. [read post]
10 Sep 2019, 10:10 am
Some oversight by the courts is necessary to avoid the perception, as stated succinctly by former New York Judge Sol Wachtler, that a determined prosecutor can “indict a ham sandwich. [read post]
13 Aug 2015, 5:07 am
And no, the Sol Wachtler’s “ham sandwich” quote will not be relied upon to make the point. [read post]
24 Oct 2011, 11:21 am
Before prosecutors began running grand juries.Nowadays, as Sol Wachtler is credited with saying, a competent prosecutor could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. [read post]
22 Oct 2020, 5:23 am
But by so illustrating this, he may help change the process. [1]This phrase, “If a district attorney wanted, a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich”, was coined by NY Chief Judge Sol Wachtler shortly after he took office in 1985, and was made famous when paraphrased by Tom Wolfe is his book, Bonfire of the Vanities, as “a grand jury would ‘indict a ham sandwich,’ if that’s what you wanted. [read post]
11 Aug 2016, 4:27 pm
When New York Court of Appeals Chief Judge Sol Wachtler observed in 1985 that any prosecutor could persuade a grand jury to “indict a ham sandwich,” he was talking about the ease with which the government can satisfy the limited scrutiny applied in any one-sided process, including that through which police routinely secure search warrants. [read post]
5 Sep 2018, 9:00 am
Decades ago, Sol Wachtler, the former chief judge of New York state, famously observed that a prosecutor could get a grand jury to “indict a ham sandwich. [read post]
18 Apr 2007, 1:14 am
Former Chief Judge Sol Wachtler and former Gov. [read post]
13 Mar 2020, 2:48 pm
Perhaps you’ve heard the famous quote from New York Judge Sol Wachtler, which first appeared in a 1995 New York Daily News interview where he explained “…district attorneys now have so much influence on grand juries that ‘by and large’ they could get them to ‘indict a ham sandwich. [read post]
22 Oct 2020, 5:01 am
In a now famous interview, former New York State Chief Judge Sol Wachtler stated something along the lines of "a grand jury would 'indict a ham sandwich' if that's what [a prosecutor] wanted. [read post]
