For decades, I have been hearing the old courtroom saying about how a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich if given the chance, but I never expected to see it happen.

What the saying conveys is that grand juries, which approve or reject charges to go to trial, only hear from one side, the prosecution, and only have to find probable cause to believe a crime happened, which is a very low fence for any prosecutor to get over.

But leave it to the Justice Department of President Donald Trump to fail at that elementary first step and then to try to charge the ham sandwich on a lesser offense and finally to fail at trial to make even that charge stick.

That’s what culminated last week in the trial not of a sandwich but rather of a man who threw one at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection age

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