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DC jurors dismissed in the trial of man charged with throwing sandwich at federal agent are deeply skeptical of the case

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PUBLISHED NOV 3, 2025, 5:47 PM ET
By Holmes Lybrand


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Potential jurors who were not selected to serve in the trial of a DC man accused of throwing a sub sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection officer expressed deep skepticism of the federal case.

A group of eight dismissed jurors spoke to CNN Monday, questioning whether any jury in DC would convict the accused sandwich-thrower, Sean Dunn. Dunn has pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge. A jury was selected in the trial Monday afternoon.

“How is that an assault?” one DC woman asked of the sandwich throwing. ..: “There’s other stuff happening in this city,” another woman said, adding she felt the government was wasting people’s time “especially during a shutdown.”

A grand jury declined to hand up a more severe assault charge against Dunn over the summer, which carried a maximum sentence of nearly a decade in prison. Prosecutors then filed a complaint against Dunn that carries a far lower maximum sentence of 1 year.

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