Oldestyle
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"28 U.S.C. former §114 (now §§1393, 1441) provides:You reference the passage concerning trials. The grand jury is not a trial
All prosecutions for crimes or offenses shall be had within the division of such districts where the same were committed, unless the court, or the judge thereof, upon the application of the defendant, shall order the cause to be transferred for prosecution to another division of the district.
The word “prosecutions,” as used in this statute, does not include the finding and return of an indictment. The prevailing practice of impaneling a grand jury for the entire district at a session in some division and of distributing the indictments among the divisions in which the offenses were committed is deemed proper and legal, Salinger v. Loisel, 265 U.S. 224, 237. The court stated that this practice is “attended with real advantages.” The rule is a restatement of existing law and is intended to sanction the continuance of this practice. For this reason, the rule requires that only the trial be held in the division in which the offense was committed and permits other proceedings to be had elsewhere in the same district."
So for a crime that is alleged to have happened in Florida...a prosecutor has no legal basis to convene a Grand Jury in Washington DC. It's not in the district that the crime took place. Any indictment that was brought should be tossed out.