Grand Jury speculation thread

What will the next legal development be?

  • Grand Jury declares Chris fit for trial

    Votes: 458 30.3%
  • Grand Jury declares Chris a brokebrain and unfit for trial

    Votes: 203 13.4%
  • CONTINUANCE!

    Votes: 220 14.6%
  • Plea deal

    Votes: 122 8.1%
  • The US collapses, Chris escapes from jail and becomes a cult-leader

    Votes: 208 13.8%
  • The Merge occurs

    Votes: 301 19.9%

  • Total voters
    1,512
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The prosecutor and defense can work out more plea deals after one is rejected. But each time a defendant balks - especially if he has already agreed to one - the deals will usually get worse and worse or the prosecutor will eventually refuse to negotiate all together. If all this is true, and Chris did in fact reject a plea deal, he wouldn't be the first defendant to get screwed by doing so.
And really, given the years of accumulated evidence in addition to him openly amping up the crazy claims of godhood, what’s more likely? That Chris clammed up, respected the process and worked with his council for the minimal punishment OR that he acted like an entitled toddler that never suffered that never suffered the consequences of his actions before.
 
Currently trying to look up conviction rates in Virginia grand juries.
They are going to be damn near 100%. Grand juries are basically rubber stamps.
A grand jury is just determining if there is enough evidence to go to trial, in a grand jury you have no right to cross examine witnesses, no right to a lawyer, not even a right to testify. There is an old joke "A grand jury would indict a ham sandwich"
 
They cannot convict, they can indict at which point the actual trial would begin. The success rate for prosecutors trying to get indictments is extremely high though
Not nessecarily you can have 50,000 more continuances.

Once he's indicted on a felony everything becomes open records and hearings open to public
 
I thought the attorney was working as a public defendant or whatever, with fixed rates
Overcharge in this context means that the prosecutor would bring additional indictments (such as charging a defendant for kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon, and robbery, when in reality the prosecutor will just try to plead down to robbery). Chris' lawyers payment structure is not a factor in this.
 
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