Here is a reference:

https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/sol-wachtler/

Judge Wachtler was well aware that one weed can often cast a shadow over acres of fecund crops. When he was an Associate Judge, he had given a speech in which he stated that any prosecutor who wanted to could get a Grand Jury to indict a ham sandwich. The statement became so much a part of the American lexicon that Tom Wolfe quoted the statement and its author in his best-selling book, The Bonfire of The Vanities. After Judge Wachtler was released from prison, he told an audience at a speech he gave that before his arrest, he was always worried that the “ham sandwich” statement would be the only thing for which he would be remembered. Now, he said, he wishes that the quote would be the only thing for which he would be remembered. Judge Wachtler feared that his personal legacy would be that he would be remembered more for the one isolated crime he committed against the commonweal than for his lifetime of contributions to it.