{{{Aims}}} I hate how frustrating the whole process is. I've been there sitting on the floor crying on the phone just trying to get through to someone who can help. It really shouldn't be like that.

wrod. I completely forgot...my cousin is marrying into the Crowder clan tomorrow...seriously, the fiance does look like Chinless!Walton Goggins...to the point that I'm looking at the photo, like, "Do I know this guy or what?" while my mom is all "Sunrise, Sunset" about how my aunt looked like that when she met my dad and so forth, but one day I was watching "Justified" and the resemblance clicked.(Boyd's more attractive.)

I'm not here. I have a lawyer question for a manuscript.

It doesn't say what state it's set in. There's a little girl, murdered Xmas Eve. The ADA is in the the police station, yelling at the chief that he want evidence gathered quickly because he wants to go up to a grand jury in the next 3 days.

So, is this crime, even though at this point they have a suspect, something that would go to a grand jury? And in 3 days?

Wow...even just being a procedural enthusiast, that sounds like "Where do you start?" levels of fucked-up.

I think without out knowing where it's happening it's difficult to say how long it would take to schedule a grand jury hearing. Also, I can't believe that you would be able to schedule it before evidence was gathered.

isn't the purpose to convene a grand jury to indict a particular person? you don't do it just for shits and giggles, right?

So isn't evidence processes before a GJ is scheduled?

And, hello - Christmas holidays? I'm pretty sure a lot of the court people take off for Christmas, New Year, etc. If I remember correctly, they don't schedule jury duty over the holidays.

Yeah, I know. It's a mid-sized town, they have a suspect (the father - he didn't do it) but no hard evidence. Actually, the ADA did it.

So is he just posturing and spewing nonsense? Because it didn't think all the things you mentioned were legally or logistically feasible.

But the ADA would know about court holidays and gathering evidence before scheduling a grand jury hearing.

Or he's doing a "rush to judgement" in the hopes that someone else will be convicted of his crime.

Speaking of which, I saw a book on "criminal crafts" - cute little crime-related crafty things. Not as weird as crafting with cat hair, but, um, different.