One of the best things about criminal justice in the United States is that, in matters of great significance, we place our trust in the judgment of the community — juries of our peers. That includes grand jurors, whose constitutional function is to be the citizen’s protection against overbearing prosecutors, making sure there is sufficient evidence before someone is stigmatized by a formal criminal accusation.
Alas, for all our abstract adulation of “the community,” it is in reality a very human mixed bag. It inevitably includes the occasional limelight-seeker — plucked from obscurity, randomly assigned to The Big Case, and unable to contain herself. Emily Kohrs — the young woman who served as forewoman of the state grand jury in Fulton County, Ga., which just completed a final report of its probe of the Trump campaign’s efforts to disrupt the 2020 presidential election — is apparently one such publicity hound.
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