The government is recognizing the power that all grand juries actually have, but are prevented from knowing about especially if they give any hint they won’t be pliant and vote the way the government wants.
Gee I wonder what side the Washington Post is on.
It was done this way because of the growing drumbeat by the Brown family lawyers, the media race hustlers and by the governor of Missouri himself demanding that the district attorney take it out of the hands of the grand jury and issue a charging document, known as an “information,” himself, which the district attorney has the legal power to do.
You may recall that Angela Corey did this very thing in the Zimmerman case, taking it away from the jury and issuing charges herself. Her charging document was a disgrace that was insufficient on its face in that it did not even claim the existence of evidence to support all the elements of the crimes charged, yet a judge rubber-stamped it in a preliminary hearing.
So here, the Missouri DA put the case to the grand jury as soon as possible, in order to preempt the calls for him to charge Wilson directly. I would have done the same thing. But because he didn’t wait for the investigation to be substantially complete, the grand jury is seeing the evidence as it dribbles in.