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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please explain to a layperson. What happens to those who are indicted?[/quote]

In a nutshell: If someone’s believed to have committed a federal crime, they must either have a probable cause hearing before a judge or be indicted. That means the government has enough evidence (probable cause) to try the case.  The target will be arrested and arraigned (booked for the crime and have a bail hearing). Normally a non-violent offender (not a danger to the community) will be released on bail.  For a wealthy defendant, a lot of bail— unless they are deemed a flight risk.  They then get a trial date and either go to trial or plea.

The indictment under seal is interesting.  It may be  to prevent a media circus this weekend and during the arrest. It is easy to being someone high profile in without the media being six deep. Or to prevent flight (but it seems unlikely that mAnnaforrt could leave the coountry anaad no one wold notice). Or— and this is my own personal conspiracy theory, based on nothing but hope and speculation— Don Jr or (more likely) Kusher are going to be indicted, and Mueller is afraid that Trump will try to interfere with the arrests/ start firing Mueller and his attorneys etc., and inflaming the public via Twitter.   So it may be under seal to protect the investigation from Trump. He can still tweet, but he is more limited if he does not know the target. Nd he might cut Manafort loose, but he will fire Mueller,ER before Kushner is arrested

I agree it’s probably Manafort and/or Flynn, although the under seal thing is strange, because everyone knows they are going to becrged.

It would amazing it was Kushner.

I haven’t seen if there is only one indictment, or there might be several?[/quote]

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