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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]
It requires grand juries to be composed of 16 to 23 members and that 12 members must concur in an indictment. [15] [16] A grand jury is instructed to return an indictment if the probable cause standard has been met. The grand jury's decision is either a "true bill" (formerly billa vera, resulting in an indictment), or "no true bill".
A federal grand jury indicted two men arrested in a Northern California undercover operation in which they’re accused of wanting to sexually abuse a 10-year-old child purportedly being ...
A former Syrian government official has been indicted on torture charges by a Los Angeles grand jury, the US Department of Justice has announced.. Samir Ousman Alsheikh, 72, of Lexington, South ...
The U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of California unsealed an indictment against Dontae Jerome Jones Jr., 20, Yasmin Charisse Millett, 21, and JoMya Mauriyne Futch, 21.
In October 2024, a US federal grand jury in the Central District of California indictment was unsealed, which detailed the March 2024 indictment, arrest, and charging of two Sudanese nationals brothers, Ahmed Salah Yusuuf Omer, 22, and Alaa Salah Yusuuf Omer, 27, for their alleged involvement in operating and controlling the cybercriminal group ...
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 ...
On June 15, 2018, following an investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California in San Francisco that lasted more than two years, a federal grand jury indicted Holmes and former Theranos chief operating officer and president, Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, on nine counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.