Overview

• Prosecutors disclosed that three different federal grand juries declined to indict Sidney Lori Reid on a felony, and they refiled the case as a misdemeanor via an Information within the 30‑day window.
• Federal prosecutors also failed to secure a felony indictment against Sean Charles Dunn, accused of throwing a Subway sandwich at a CBP officer, according to reporting from the New York Times and the Associated Press.
• It is highly unusual for grand juries to reject prosecutors’ cases, and multiple no‑true‑bill votes in the same matter are exceptionally rare given the low probable‑cause standard.
• A magistrate judge previously found probable cause in Reid’s case, yet the U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C., led by Jeanine Pirro, is now proceeding on a lesser misdemeanor charge that does not require grand‑jury approval.
• Both cases have become tests of the administration’s expanded federal policing in Washington, where several high‑profile arrests and charge reductions have drawn scrutiny of prosecutorial overreach.