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TO THE EDITOR:

The Leshers’ indictments are the perfect example why the grand jury system should be re-evaluated.

Beginning Oct. 4, 2006, the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office began to offer criminal-defense attorneys the opportunity to appear before grand juries to make presentations on behalf of their clients. What a change, what a reform. DA Watkins should be congratulated. State prosecutors largely control grand jury proceedings, in which a panel of citizens decide in secret whether a probable cause exists to indict a person charged with a felony. That DA usu...