Jurors in Sandwich Thrower Case Found Charges ‘Bunch of Baloney’

Federal prosecutors hung their case on a piece of onion and a mustard smear, and that the Customs and Border Protection agent struck by a foot-long Subway sandwich was the victim of an indefensible attack.

But when the jury began deliberations, they focused on the videos and photographs shown during two days of testimony: the sandwich, they noted, was never unwrapped. So how could any of the sandwich’s insides have struck the agent?