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Typically, the material may consist of police notes, memoranda, reports, summaries, letters, related to an indictment or verbatim transcripts used by government agents or employees to testify at trial. [1] This also includes a witness's grand jury testimony, if the witness testified at trial. [2]
In 2005, the New York Times described target letters this way: "The U.S. attorney's manual bars prosecutors from taking witnesses before a grand jury if there is a possibility of future criminal charges unless the witnesses are notified in advance that their grand jury testimony can be used against them in a later indictment."
In addition, grand jury witnesses may be prosecuted for perjury or making false statements in their testimony. In Kastigar v. United States, 406 U.S. 441 (1972), the US Supreme Court confronted the issue of the type of immunity, use or transactional, constitutionally required to compel testimony. The Court ruled that the grant of use and ...
The testimony came on the first day of the trial of Lt. Daniel J. Griffin and Sgt. William R. Robertson in federal court. ... The testimony – first given in 2020 to a grand jury – was affirmed ...
Grand jury transcripts from a 2006 Florida investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of dozens of underage girls will be released publicly later this year under legislation signed into law ...
It was the first time the panel was hearing testimony in the Trump probe since last Monday, when a witness favorable to the ex-president appeared before the grand jury. The jurors did not meet at ...
The grand jury served to screen out incompetent or malicious prosecutions. [12] [page needed] The advent of official public prosecutors in the later decades of the 19th century largely displaced private prosecutions. [13] By the 21st century, the grand jury had lost almost all of its power as a check on other branches of government. [11]
A federal grand jury deciding whether to indict Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election will hear testimony from Trump aide William Russell.