And if a trespasser on your property makes you feel at all uncomfortable, you can shoot the guy without pausing to consider the consequences. There are no consequences. That's what varied Oregon grand juries have been telling us for months, if not years. After a Lane County grand jury bestowed its blessing upon the Eugene dad who killed his daughter's drug partner, Capt. We aren't even close to the edge of the envelope.
Vigilantism is the rage.
And few seem to care that these grand juries are doing a great impression of a stacked deck. There's an old saying that if a district attorney wants to indict a ham sandwich, he can. More often than not, he has the grand jury eating out of the palm of his hand. In a preliminary hearing, there is a judge and the opportunity for the accused and his or her lawyer to question witnesses. But a grand jury is a private affair in which the only people, other than the witnesses, allowed in the room are the prosecutor and the jurors.