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A California man was indicted by a federal grand jury in Atlanta on charges of threatening Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of ...
A grand jury's constitutional role is to prevent prosecutorial misconduct, verifying that the presented information (accusation) is sufficient evidence to pursue a prosecution. To achieve this, a grand jury is given investigative powers such as being able to issue subpoenas and compel witnesses to testify without a lawyer present. [6]
In total, Travis County grand juries indicted 21 officers for aggravated assault for the use of “bean bag” rounds during the May 2020 racial justice protests. Late last year, the district ...
A California prosecutor whose office is reviewing dozens of death penalty convictions over allegations of decades-old racial bias said Wednesday that she is weighing whether to retry another case ...
The grand jury has been criticized, however, as ineffective in protecting the rights of the accused. In the words of Sol Wachtler, a former Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich if the prosecutor asked it to do so. [7] The decision was "reaffirmed in numerous cases" in the early 20th century. [8]
The court records filed by the Arizona attorney general’s office contain exchanges between prosecutors and the grand jurors, who heard 18 days' of testimony. As grand jurors were considering possible charges, a prosecutor asked them not to indict Trump, citing a U.S. Justice Department policy that limits the prosecution of someone for the ...
[222] [223] The next day, CBS News reported that anonymous sources have stated that Meadows is cooperating with prosecutors and has testified before the grand jury but did not state that Meadows has received legal immunity, while Meadows' attorney stated to CBS News that the ABC News report was "largely inaccurate."
The indictments come nearly four years after the death of Max Benson at the Guiding Hands school in El Dorado Hills.