Toward a more independent grand jury: Recasting and enforcing the...

The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics;  April 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...INTRODUCTION The bromide that "a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich if the prosecutor...over the flow of information before the grand jury. Notwithstanding this almost universal...prosecutor wields great power before the grand jury, it would probably surprise most lay...

The grand jury and health care crimes: what every physician executive...

Physician Executive;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......offenses, as well as the government's use of the grand jury, continue to increase. The grand jury serves the dual function as both a sword and...executives understand the workings of the grand jury, as the criminalization of health care malfeasance...

A proposed addition to the federal rules of criminal procedures requiring...

The American Criminal Law Review;  October 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...The grand jury serves as the government's criminal investigative...Fathers that it was enshrined in the Grand Jury Clause of the Fifth Amendment, which...unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury."2 Notwithstanding its long history,3...

MERIT GRAND JURY DISPUTE IN APPEALS COURT.(News)

The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY);  December 1, 2005 ;     485 words ......May. So far, the grand jury has indicted 13...issued a blanket pardon that specifically...and others he had pardoned. The grand jury is operating under...should instruct the grand jury of the legal effect of Fletcher's pardon. That means...other things -- the ...

New grand jury called for West Palm review: Mayor criticized report that...

South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL);  February 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ......WEST PALM BEACH -- Complaints about a grand jury's final report on pay-to-play corruption...Krischer on Thursday to designate a second grand jury to revisit the investigation. Last Friday, the first grand jury released a 12-page report that found...

CRAWFORD KEEPS GRAND JURY AT WORK

Post-Tribune (IN);  February 15, 1988 ;     544 words ......THE PRINTED VERSION. The Lake County grand jury is alive and well, despite a pledge by...Crawford recently drew headlines by having a grand jury indict Hammond City Controller Edward...said Crawford appears to be using the grand jury as much if not more than in the past...

Watchdog goes to grand jury.

Appeal-Democrat (Marysville, CA);  March 1, 2007 ;     481 words ......employees and elected officials to the grand jury Wednesday. The Sutter County Taxpayers Association filed a complaint with the grand jury, an entity that has been in the association...President Robert Mackensen, asks the grand jury to investigate Sutter County officials...

GRAND JURY ISSUES:ANDREW D. LEIPOLD

Congressional Testimony;  July 27, 2000 ;     700+ words ......27, 2000 Constitutional Rights and the Grand Jury I. Background Few parts of the criminal...withstood the criticism better, than the grand jury. Although the 5th Amendment to the Constitution...serious criminal charges be subjected to grand jury review, modern commentators are ...

COURT: GRAND JURY SHOULD NOT INDICT THOSE WHO ARE PARDONED.(News)

The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY);  May 19, 2006 ;     700+ words ......who have been pardoned. Snyder also argued that the grand jury shouldn't be...possible post-pardon criminal activity. The grand jury began investigating...indicted have been pardoned, noting that...about releasing grand jury proceedings in...

JONBENET RAMSEY CASE TAKES NEW TURN, GOES TO GRAND JURY.(News)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  September 15, 1998 ;     537 words ......months after JonBenet Ramsey was killed, a grand jury is expected to convene today to review...and continue the investigation. ``The grand jury is not being convened merely to decide...since shortly after the killing. ``The grand jury is being convened because investigators...

Grand jury empaneled in fatal 2000 Seton Hall dorm fire

University Wire;  October 24, 2001 ;     399 words ......U-WIRE) SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. -- A special grand jury was selected and empaneled to consider...injured 58 others. The 23 members of the grand jury were selected on Friday, Oct. 12, out...Essex County Prosecutor's Office. The grand jury will also hear testimony to consider...

THE USEFUL, DANGEROUS FICTION OF GRAND JURY INDEPENDENCE

The American Criminal Law Review;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......the Supreme Court, is that the federal grand jury is a "protective bulwark," whose central...civil rights institution, however, the grand jury is an odd one. It is championed by the...which generally opposes any changes to grand jury procedures, even though it is federal...

FAS: Could the Grand Jury Rein in the Independent Counsel?

U.S. Newswire;  March 12, 1998 ;     700+ words ......theory, as a leading law treatise puts it, the grand jury and prosecutor are "coequal entities, each acting as a check on the other...." Could a grand jury check a prosecutor who is using his investigative...plausible. For example, the Handbook says that the grand jury is "not ...

Supreme Court Grants Grand Jury Request

The Journal Record;  March 4, 1994 ;     464 words ......ving's request to convene a new multicounty grand jury Thursday, but three justices disagreed...March 22 as the date for convening of the grand jury and empowers it to investigate crimes...Judge Donald Powers to preside over the grand jury. Powers presided over the three previous...

New hope in old case Grand jury could probe vanishing of Beth Miller

Rocky Mountain News;  June 21, 2006 ;     700+ words ......mayor of Georgetown is optimistic that a grand jury may be seated this year in the decades-o...of her sister, Beth Miller. And if a grand jury is empaneled, Granger said, she believes...one dead and one still living - that a grand jury should focus on. "The D.A. agrees, the...