Will the Justice Department seek a grand jury indictment, or is this high-profile case permanently closed?

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The case is not permanently closed, but there is no public sign yet that the Justice Department has secured or announced a grand jury indictment. Judge Zia Faruqui dismissed only the criminal complaint, and both the court record and subsequent reporting make clear that prosecutors could still refile by taking the case to a grand jury. That is the standard route for felony charges and the one the judge said should have been used in the first place. Whether DOJ will do that is uncertain. The dismissal was a significant setback because Faruqui sharply criticized the prosecution as improvised and procedurally improper, including the decision to proceed by complaint and the failed attempt to add charges without judicial approval. That does not bar a new indictment, but it raises the pressure on prosecutors to present a cleaner, stronger case. A practical factor is timing. In federal court, cases begun by complaint typically must move to indictment promptly after arrest or be dismissed, which has now happened. DOJ can still seek an indictment if statutes of limitation and other procedural rules allow, but it would need a grand jury to agree that probable cause exists. So the most accurate answer is that the complaint is over for now, not the matter itself. The next move belongs to the Justice Department, and until it files before a grand jury or says it is dropping the matter, the future of the case remains unresolved.

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