(NewsNation) — The grand jury that considered the indictment against ex-FBI Director James Comey at first rejected part of the proposed Justice Department indictment, a court filing shows.

A document filed in the court docket is titled: “REPORT OF A GRAND JURY’S FAILURE TO CONCUR IN AN INDICTMENT.”

That document states, “As the foreperson of the grand jury of this court… I report that 12 or more grand jurors did not concur in finding an indictment in count 1 this case only.”

The document states this record was filed with the court clerk and “will not be made public unless the court orders otherwise.”

The U.S. District Court, therefore, must have ordered it to be made public. A legal expert told NewsNation it was “extremely rare” for such a note to be filed.

It's not clear exactly how

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