The ever thoughtful Chief Judge Sol Wachtler famously, and indeed somewhat scornfully, maintained that "a grand jury could indict a ham sandwich." Ever since, those who toil in the professional provinces of the "criminal world," if you will, have wondered whether there is really any benefit to criminal justice—or more particularly to criminal defendants—in a system that permits felonies to be prosecutable only by grand jury indictment. This is, of course, the current state of affairs unless a defendant pleads guilty before an indictment.