Grand Jury in a sentence

Unlike a state grand jury, which has statewide jurisdiction, a county grand jury is limited to investigating wrongful acts occurring within the county where the grand jury is sitting.

Grand jury main A grand jury, a type of jury now confined almost exclusively to federal courts and some state jurisdictions in the United States, determines whether there is enough evidence for a criminal trial to go forward.

When used alone the term jury usually refers to a petit jury, rather than a grand jury.

The panel’s foreperson said the special grand jury recommended multiple criminal indictments, leaving it up to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, a Democrat, to decide whether to convene a regular grand jury and pursue criminal charges.

But the court said that prosecutors improperly provided the grand jury with a definition of grooming without expert testimony, and faulted them for withholding from the grand jury inconsistent statements made by one of his accusers.

Holder was indicted by a grand jury last May on one count of murder, two counts of attempted murder and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon by a grand jury.

Hess wanted the court to allow him to present that evidence to the grand jury or require the district attorney's office to present the evidence to the grand jury.

Those legal powers include being able to access secret grand jury information, as impeachment investigations have been deemed to fall under an exception that allows disclosure of grand jury material in the context of judicial proceedings.

If the indictment is not proved to the satisfaction of the grand jury, the word "ignoramus" or "not a true bill" is written upon it by the grand jury, or by their foreman and is then said to be ignored, and the accusation is dismissed as unfounded.

In some jurisdictions, in addition to indicting persons for crimes, a grand jury may also issue reports on matters that they investigate apart from the criminal indictments, particularly when the grand jury investigation involves a public scandal.

The jury also found Mr. not guilty Friday on a charge of penalizing the teacher for missing work to testify before a special grand jury in a separate sexual-assault case at a different school.

The special grand jury convened for the case recommended issuing multiple indictments in its final report completed in February, according to the jury foreperson.

After hearing arguments, Judge Brenner determined that the grand jury had made a proper decision that probable cause existed for the case to head to a jury trial.

Last week, when he arrived at court for potential jury selection in that case, he was hit with a grand jury indictment on a separate incident which took place in October 2018.

A grand jury is traditionally larger than and distinguishable from the petit jury used during a trial, usually with 12 jurors.

Old courthouses with the two jury boxes necessary to accommodate the 24 jurors of a grand jury can still be seen.

Page 134 By an ordinance of the civil administration of the Ryukyu Islands promulgated in 1963, grand jury indictment and petit jury trial were assured for criminal defendants in the civil administration courts.

Thus, inadvertently, trial by jury and indictment by grand jury were introduced, but only for these subsidiary courts.

Now under Georgia law, that special grand jury didn’t have the power to indict in the way that other grand juries have the ability to hand up indictments.

Richard Crew and Stewart David Barron were convicted by a federal grand jury in Grand Rapids on one count of arson and one count of conspiracy to commit arson in that fire.