Is there some legal loophole that allows a prosecutor to ignore a grand jurys indictment?
McKINLEY: We’re not sure. There are some legal issues in play here that really haven’t been tested yet. Did you see this train wreck coming down the tracks, or did it suddenly derail with the prosecution? McKINLEY: We could see the prosecutor change. We didn’t realize it was a train wreck until it was over; we looked back and saw what had happened. So, when the indictments were sealed, you guys went public. McKINLEY: After we had finished the grand-jury proceedings, the prosecutors-at the very end-handed us an indictment against Rockwell the corporation itself [not the executives who run the company]. So we voted, and those went to the judge. Within two weeks we read in the newspaper the judge saying that it is with “great regret” the court had watched the grand jury fall short of its sworn duty. All the while U.S. Attorney Mike Norton was being groomed to be the governor of Colorado. Because Rockwell International pleaded guilty to ten charges of environmental crimes and was fined $18
