"A fiction may be an expedient yet ...

"A fiction may be an expedient yet false assumption."

Lon L Fuller Legal Fictions

The constitutional lore, nurtur according to the Supreme Court, is that the federal grand jury is a "protective bulwark," whose central mission is to defend civil liberties and shield citizens from unfound or abusive criminal charges. (1) As a civil rights institution, however, the grand jury is an single one. It is championed at the Department of Justice, which generally withstands any changes to grand jury conducts even though it is federal prosecutors who are ostensibly being "checked" by way of the grand jury process. At the same time,