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22 Apr 2019, 1:12 pm by John Floyd
Howell, ruled in In re Unsealed Dockets that she “retains an inherent authority to unseal and disclose grand jury material not otherwise falling within the enumerated exceptions of Rule 6(e). [read post]
10 Apr 2019, 11:12 am by Quinta Jurecic, Benjamin Wittes
Unless you’re a congressional reporter or analyst, it makes little sense to focus on how congressional Democrats are reacting to the document’s release or even whether Congress will take this as an invitation to begin impeachment proceedings. [read post]
6 Apr 2019, 9:29 am by Jeremy Gordon
Maintaining secrecy is also key to preventing district courts from creating additional exceptions to grand jury secrecy—since a district court first claimed inherent authority to disclose grand jury material in In re Petition of Kutler, the court explains, there have been a steady stream of requests for disclosures. [read post]
31 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton and Kathryn Robb
That has changed—35 states are considering SOL reform this year; there are at least 14 active state attorney general investigations into abuse in the Church, following Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s grand jury report on six dioceses in Pennsylvania; and, refreshingly, the attorney general of West Virginia has filed the first lawsuit against an entire diocese and its bishop for endangering children. [read post]
The determination of just how good the news is—whether it amounts to the exoneration Trump claims on these points or whether we’re dealing with conduct just shy of prosecutable—will have to await the text of Mueller’s report itself. [read post]
12 Mar 2019, 11:06 am by Chuck Rosenberg
One of the greatest risks with which agents and prosecutors contend are cooperating witnesses (I dislike the term “snitches”). [read post]
4 Mar 2019, 11:32 pm by Florian Mueller
An import ban is typically considered the grand prize because it sometimes gives a patent holder great leverage over the other party, while damages are the consolation prize.The ITC doesn't need, want or have juries. [read post]
1 Mar 2019, 2:00 am by Christopher Tyner
  USA Today reports that a federal grand jury in Maryland has indicted Coast Guard Officer Christopher Paul Hasson for illegally possessing weapons and planning a domestic terror attack targeting prominent politicians. [read post]
15 Feb 2019, 12:30 pm by John K. Ross
A grand jury was convened, but no one was ever charged even after 16 days of witness testimony. [read post]
31 Jan 2019, 5:30 am by Benjamin Wittes
The Watergate grand jury had specifically prepared the report for purposes of transmitting it to the House Judiciary Committee in support of the impeachment inquiry. [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 9:16 am by Scott Harman
Circuit left undecided in its recent opinion in In re Grand Jury Subpoena, a case assumed to be tied to the special counsel’s investigation. [read post]
8 Jan 2019, 5:42 am by Emma Broches, Julia Solomon-Strauss
Al Safoo had on multiple occasions re-posted a statement swearing allegiance to the group. [read post]
4 Jan 2019, 8:51 am by Ken White
The court reversed the perjury conviction, holding that: “The primary function of the Grand Jury is to uncover crimes and misconduct in public office for the purpose of prosecution … It is not properly a principal aim of the Grand Jury, however, to ‘create’ new crimes in the course of its proceedings. [read post]
27 Nov 2018, 12:30 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
And whatever reasons Judges Keller, Hervey, Keasler, and Yeary had for dissenting, they chose not to share them.5-4 is close, and the story line about the grand jury and petit jury having the same foreman is a twist I've never heard before. [read post]
19 Nov 2018, 7:13 am by Jim Baker, Sarah Grant
Leon Jaworski replaced Cox, and eventually he prepared the road map in conjunction with the federal grand jury investigating Watergate. [read post]
16 Nov 2018, 8:57 am by John Carlin, David A. Newman
” Later that same week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) further pulled back the curtain on the extent of the threat when it released a thirty-seven-page grand jury indictment that charged thirteen Russian nationals and three companies and described in detail a large-scale, coordinated Russian effort to interfere in the 2016 election and sow division in the US electorate. [read post]
15 Nov 2018, 8:00 am by Sevens Legal
Although most cases are resolved beforehand, if your case goes to trial you can decide whether you want a trail by jury, where a jury decides your case, or a bench trial, where a judge will decide your case. [read post]
13 Nov 2018, 6:13 am by Schachtman
Statisticians do not simply look at two statistics, such as the actual and expected percentage of blacks on a grand jury, and make a subjective conclusion that the statistics are significantly different. [read post]
9 Nov 2018, 1:15 pm by George Conway, Benjamin Wittes
Paul Kamenar argues for Andrew Miller—a witness who is appealing a contempt finding for refusing to appear before the special counsel’s grand jury. [read post]