Large amounts of lego and vidya always show up in second hand stores. It's in their nature.
The way another case was added after Chris instead of before, and also that Chris was wobbled up near the end of the month, which would put him at the end of the queue already, makes me tend to think Greene County grand juries operate on a first come, first served basis.
I don't know if this was official policy, but the times¹ I've been on a grand jury it seemed like they scheduled the complicated cases early and left the easy slam dunks for the end when everyone was tired.
But Heilberg would have had nothing to do with the grand jury. Any order for a continuance would have had to come from the presiding judge. Presumably, that is. I have never heard of any case where the grand jury was cock blocked like this before getting to hand down an indictment. Even the one where the defendant died, they still indicted his corpse. The only thing that makes sense to me is that they hadn't gotten to Chris yet before Heilberg's motion for deferred disposition waived indictment, but the judge would have had to accept it, and he doesn't seem to have done that yet.
It's all very fucking weird. Maybe this is just how they do things in rural Virginia.
Oh they know exactly what to do with Chris. They're just not allowed to do it any more. Besides, finding a reliable source of tar and feathers might be difficult these days, even in rural Virginia. They're probably online-only items. Also supply chain problems.
Deferred disposition isn't the miracle. It's pretty common. Edging a grand jury and then shutting them down on the day of empanelment is.
¹ Yes, times. Plural. When you live in a small county, you tend to get called for jury duty a lot, especially once they find out you're willing to actually stand. They're probably not supposed to keep a short list like that, but they do.