2026-06-09T22:37:30.667Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：凯特琳·波兰茨
发布时间：2026年6月9日，美国东部时间下午6:37
内容摘要
- 新披露的记录显示，一名大陪审团成员告诉检察官，拟议的起诉是“一派胡言”。
- 芝加哥美国检察官办公室近几周因处理这些大陪审团程序陷入危机。
- 一名法官认定大陪审团程序不当后，司法部上月撤销了此案的所有指控。
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根据最新披露的10月大陪审团会议记录，芝加哥的一些大陪审团成员在去年10月就对拟起诉六名民主党政客和活动人士的指控表示怀疑，这些人曾在芝加哥郊外的联邦移民拘留中心外抗议。
“你们是不是可以无限次尝试？”在大陪审团已经投票否决该起诉案一周后，一名大陪审团成员问检察官。但司法部仍在尝试推进。
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芝加哥一名联邦法官周二批准披露针对“布罗德韦尔六人组”（现已以此代称这些抗议者）的起诉案的10月大陪审团程序多页记录。完整披露展示检察官与大陪审团成员就可能的刑事案件互动的大陪审团记录，实属极为罕见。
近几周来，布罗德韦尔六人组案中的大陪审团问题让芝加哥美国检察官办公室及其美国检察官安德鲁·布特罗斯陷入危机。随着记录的披露，辩护律师的反对以及法官对布罗德韦尔六人组案及其他案件的审查还将持续。
一名法官此前已认定相关程序不当。她在5月的一场听证会上指出，一线检察官为证据背书，并将自身观点注入程序。该法官还表示，在去年10月起诉未获得支持的一周后，检察官打发了一名表示会投反对票的大陪审团成员。
去年秋天，大陪审团每周四开会审议检察官提交的案件。10月，此案被连续三周提交给同一大陪审团，但并非所有大陪审团成员每次会议都需到场。
一名大陪审团询问是否有新事实可加入此案后，一名检察官回应：“我已经感受到怀疑了。你们能抱着开放的心态倾听吗？说实话。”
根据新披露的记录，这名匿名大陪审团成员回应道：“我上周就听过这个案子，当时就觉得是一派胡言，现在还是这么认为。”
随后检察官将这名大陪审团成员请出会场——这种做法问题严重，以至于检察官办公室提前结束了会议，未再要求大陪审团投票。
一周后，大陪审团批准了对布罗德韦尔六人组的起诉——这是该案第三次提交大陪审团审议。
上月，法官阿普里尔·佩里宣读了此前保密的大陪审团记录后不久，美国检察官办公室就撤销了对他们的指控。
“这些记录证明，布罗德韦尔六人组案的大陪审团曾多次试图对这场虚假的政治起诉说‘不’，”布罗德韦尔六人组其中一名被告的律师克里斯托弗·帕伦特周二在一份声明中表示，“司法部违反了大陪审团程序的善意基础，将起诉用作武器，践踏法律。”
后续余波
这一事件还引发了人们对司法部政治领导层是否参与芝加哥办公室对这些民主党活动人士的起诉工作的质疑。上周，代理司法部长托德·布兰奇表达了对布特罗斯的支持。
然而，根据新披露的记录，10月负责布罗德韦尔六人组案的一名低级检察官告诉大陪审团：“我不想用十英尺长的杆子碰政治”，鉴于此案涉及联邦移民执法，“我们对政治视而不见”。
包括几位知名前联邦检察官在内的该办公室100多名校友周一发表书面声明称，他们认为该办公室“领导力失败”，“一度被禁止的政治考量正在侵蚀检察决策”。
同样在本周，伊利诺伊州北区审判级法院至少另外两起案件的辩护律师援引布罗德韦尔六人组案的大陪审团丑闻，要求法官审查其他刑事案件中检察官的工作。
布特罗斯的办公室昨日在社交媒体上发布的一份声明显示，布特罗斯曾吹嘘自己对起诉案件，特别是与枪支犯罪相关案件的强硬态度，还称他“过去一年一直在通过重大变革和改革整顿团队”。
Grand juror called DOJ’s controversial Chicago protest indictment ‘a crock’ before it was approved, transcript shows
2026-06-09T22:37:30.667Z / CNN
By Katelyn Polantz
PUBLISHED Jun 9, 2026, 6:37 PM ET
Protesters are enveloped in a cloud of gas released by federal agents while they attempt to block a vehicle at the Broadview Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on September 19, 2025, in Broadview, Illinois.
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Summary
- Newly released transcripts show a grand juror told prosecutors a proposed indictment was “a crock.”
- The US Attorney’s Office in Chicago has faced a crisis in recent weeks over its handling of those grand jury proceedings.
- The Justice Department dropped all charges in the case last month after a judge found the grand jury process improper.
AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.
Some grand jurors in Chicago told the Justice Department in October they were skeptical of a proposed indictment of six Democratic politicians and activists who had protested outside a federal immigration detention center outside Chicago, according to newly released transcripts of the October grand jury sessions.
“Do you have unlimited tries?” one grand juror asked prosecutors a week after the grand jury had already voted against the indictment. The Justice Department was trying again.
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A federal judge in Chicago on Tuesday authorized the release of several pages of transcripts from October grand jury proceedings where the protesters, now known as the “Broadview Six,” were charged. It is exceedingly rare for full grand jury transcripts, showing prosecutors’ interactions with the grand jury members analyzing a possible criminal case, to be made public.
In recent weeks, the grand jury issues in the Broadview Six case have sent the US Attorney’s Office in Chicago, and its US Attorney Andrew Boutros, into crisis. Pushback from defense attorneys and scrutiny from judges — on the Broadview Six case and others — will continue following the release of the transcripts.
A judge had already characterized the exchanges as improper. She noted in a hearing in May that line prosecutors vouched for their evidence and injected their own views into the proceedings. The judge said the prosecutors had sent home a grand juror who indicated they would vote no on the indictment, a week after the indictment failed to win support last October.
The grand jury was meeting every Thursday last fall to examine cases prosecutors proposed. This case was presented to the same grand jury three weeks in a row in October, but not all grand jurors needed to be present each session.
After one grand juror asked if there were new facts to add to the case, one of the prosecutors responded, “I’m feeling the skepticism already. Are you going to be able to listen with an open mind? Tell me the truth.”
“I heard this case like last week and I thought it was a crock of shit then and I still think it is,” the unnamed grand juror responded, according to the newly released transcripts.
The prosecutor then excused the grand juror — an approach so problematic, the US attorney’s office cut short the session without asking the grand jury to vote again.
A week later, the grand jury approved an indictment of the Broadview Six — its third session about the case.
The US attorney’s office dropped the charges against them last month shortly after the judge, April Perry, read the previously secret grand jury transcripts.
“These transcripts prove that the grand jury in the Broadview 6 case repeatedly attempted to say ‘no’ to this sham political indictment,” Christopher Parente, an attorney for one of the Broadview Six defendants, said in a statement on Tuesday. “This DOJ has violated the good faith foundation of the grand jury process to weaponize indictments and subvert the law.”
Continued fallout
The situation also has raised questions about the possible involvement of Justice Department political leadership in the Chicago office’s prosecution efforts of the Democratic activists. Last week, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche voiced his support for Boutros.
However, a lower-level prosecutor told the grand jury on the Broadview Six case in October, “I do not want to touch politics with a ten-foot pole,” and that “we’re putting blinders on to politics,” given that the case involved federal immigration law enforcement, according to the newly released transcripts.
More than 100 alumni of the office, including several well-known former federal prosecutors, issued a written statement on Monday saying they believed the office was suffering from “a failure of leadership” and that “once-forbidden political considerations are infecting prosecutorial decisions.”
Also this week, defense attorneys in at least two other cases in the Northern District of Illinois’ trial-level court have raised the Broadview Six grand jury debacle as reason for judges to review prosecutors’ work in other criminal cases.
Boutros has boasted about his aggressive approach to charging cases, especially related to gun crimes, and also says he’s “spent the last year righting the ship through significant changes and reforms,” according to a statement his office posted on social media yesterday.
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