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15 Jul 2015, 3:09 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
., July 15, 2015 – “The newly released grand jury testimony by Ethel Rosenberg’s brother David Greenglass suggests he committed perjury on the witness stand in the Rosenberg spy trial, according to experts who analyzed the documents released today and posted by the National Security Archive. [read post]
14 Jul 2015, 2:50 pm
They say that any prosecutor worth his salt can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. [read post]
11 Jul 2015, 5:42 am by Gritsforbreakfast
As things stand, this move reinforces the view that we're witnessing a rigged game in Waco. [read post]
28 Jun 2015, 4:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
  This bill eliminated the key-man system for selecting grand juries and has grand juries, henceforth, selected through the same jury wheel that they’re selected for petit juries. [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 9:53 pm by Jeff Gamso
It's that people who've done monstrous things aren't monsters, they're people. [read post]
22 Jun 2015, 7:38 am by Ken White
Some have argued that the Department of Justice must have had information spurring them to use the grand jury to pierce the anonymity of people engaged in protected political speech. [read post]
8 Jun 2015, 4:16 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The 84th Texas Legislature witnessed a few bright spots on criminal justice: E.g., ending the pick-a-pal grand jury system, giving judges tools to combat junk science via habeas corpus, scaling back use of state youth prisons, decriminalizing truancy, and, perhaps the biggest one that's received no MSM attention, adjusting property theft thresholds for inflation for the first time since 1993. [read post]
29 May 2015, 7:23 am by Ken White
They had already put witnesses before the grand jury, they had already used grand jury subpoenas to get Hastert's bank records, they already knew exactly how they would charge and prove up the structuring charge. [read post]
22 Apr 2015, 3:00 pm
Here’s Judge Kozinski’s concurring opinion, signed on to by five of the 11 judges on the en banc panel: Can a single non-responsive answer by a grand jury witness support a conviction for obstruction of justice under 18 U.S.C. [read post]
5 Apr 2015, 12:14 pm by Jason Weiner
They might ensue as you make a deposition, testify under oath or appear before a grand jury. [read post]
2 Apr 2015, 1:30 pm by Carrie Cordero
As Wells noted when it first came out last month, the Brennan Center has a new report: What Went Wrong With the FISA Court. [read post]
26 Mar 2015, 12:00 am
I walked her through the testimony she had offered at this trial, and a previous trial, and a grand jury proceeding, and her sworn statement to the police. [read post]
14 Mar 2015, 4:22 pm by Stephen Bilkis
Whether a witness may be examined by leading questions in the grand jury is within the discretion of the district attorney as the law advisor to the grand jury. [read post]
10 Mar 2015, 11:55 pm
 Indeed, I think that there are only three basic areas in which this has occurred regularly since Crawford – and even in those it was only relatively recent doctrinal changes, or in some cases an essential abandonment of doctrine, that prevented hearsay law from excluding the statements:First, before Crawford some courts had been admitting third-party confessions and statements made in formal, judicially supervised settings, such as grand jury testimony and allocution… [read post]
10 Mar 2015, 11:55 pm
 Indeed, I think that there are only three basic areas in which this has occurred regularly since Crawford – and even in those it was only relatively recent doctrinal changes, or in some cases an essential abandonment of doctrine, that prevented hearsay law from excluding the statements:First, before Crawford some courts had been admitting third-party confessions and statements made in formal, judicially supervised settings, such as grand jury testimony and allocution… [read post]
18 Feb 2015, 4:43 am by SHG
He suggested that judges be physically present in grand jury rooms in cases of homicide or felony assault of civilians involving the police: making legal rulings, questioning witnesses and rejecting “inadmissible evidence or improper questions. [read post]
16 Feb 2015, 5:24 am by SHG
  A special grand jury expired and no one noticed. [read post]
15 Feb 2015, 9:48 am by Andrew Frisch
Because at-issue waiver is to be “decided by the courts on a case-by-case basis, and depends primarily on the specific context in which the privilege is asserted,” In re Grand Jury Proceedings, 219 F.3d at 183, the Court will examine the specific factual context of this case. [read post]