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Rene Guerra (no relation to Maria America Guerra), the district attorney of Hidalgo County from the 1980s until 2014, [1] chose not to bring the Garza case before a grand jury until 2004. [11] Tacheny, O'Brien and Feit did not receive subpoenas in the case, and the grand jury declined to indict Feit. O'Brien died in 2005. [11]
A Texas prosecutor says a criminal investigation into police failures during the Uvalde school shooting will continue into 2024, pushing back expectations that a grand jury would convene before ...
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]
A Texas prosecutor has convened a grand jury to investigate the Uvalde school shooting that killed 21 people, multiple media reported Friday. Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell ...
Griffin v. California, 380 U.S. 609 (1965), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled, by a 6–2 vote, that it is a violation of a defendant's Fifth Amendment rights for the prosecutor to comment to the jury on the defendant's declining to testify, or for the judge to instruct the jury that such silence is evidence of guilt.
The Pro Bowl QB had his case brought before a Texas grand jury today and the decision has been reached. Per Molly Cuculich of KHOU, the grand jury did not find enough to criminally charge […]
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 ...
California, 110 U.S. 516 (1884), [1] was a landmark case [2] [3] decided by the United States Supreme Court that allowed state governments, as distinguished from the federal government, to avoid using grand juries in criminal prosecutions.