Sue D. Nymme @sdn.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Judge Currie explained in a footnote why there is no six-month grace period in Comey's case. 000
Sue D. Nymme @sdn.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Now there's a meme I've not seen in a long time. A long time. 080
Sue D. Nymme @sdn.bsky.social · 12/12/2023I think that the magic words that Dr. Karsan didn't use were “reasonable medical judgment”. She said “good faith belief”, which the TXSC appears to believe is a lower standard. 182
![The Government responds that the Attorney General’s ratification was proper because she could have “personally obtain[ed] a new indictment” on October 31 “using [the] grace period” set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3288. ECF No. 137 at 29. That statute provides in part:
Whenever an indictment or information charging a felony is dismissed for any reason after the period prescribed by the applicable statute of limitations has expired, a new indictment may be returned in the appropriate jurisdiction within six calendar months of the date of the dismissal of the indictment or information.
Generally, “[t]he return of an indictment tolls the statute of limitations on the charges contained in the indictment.” United States v. Ojedokun, 16 F.4th 1091, 1109 (4th Cir. 2021). “An invalid indictment,” however, “cannot serve to block the door of limitations as it swings closed.” United States v. Crysopt Corp., 781 F. Supp. 375, 378 (D. Md. 1991) (emphasis in original); see also United States v. Gillespie, 666 F. Supp. 1137, 1141 (N.D. Ill. 1987) (“[A] valid indictment insulates from statute-of-limitations problems any refiling of the same charges during the pendency of that valid indictment (that is, the superseding of a valid indictment). But if the earlier indictment is void, there is no legitimate peg on which to hang such a judicial limitations-tolling result.”.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eeaw5yts66xdmlrq5kmma3ao/bafkreig5hvccrvgmvjmy4hndz5qjcwrbucwkjr3c3zzxaytuffyh26xfum)
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