Ginsburg v. Dreyman

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the grand jury’s “power to extend lenity” includes “the extreme choices of complete absolution or indictment on the top count supported by legally sufficient evidence” as well as “returning a true bill for only a lesser offense”
• explaining that the grand jury's \power to extend lenity\ includes \the extreme choices of complete absolution or indictment on the top count supported by legally sufficient evidence\ as well as \returning a true bill for only a lesser offense\
• providing that “[c]onsistent with centuries of history,” a New York grand jury may “decide that an excessively technical application of the law upon a particular defendant would work an unfairness that would be contrary to the conscience of the community”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).