Definitions for Grand Jury
grand jury

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. grand jurynoun

   a jury to inquire into accusations of crime and to evaluate the grounds for indictments

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. grand jurynoun

   A group of citizens assembled by the government to hear evidence against an accused, and determine whether an indictment for a crime should be brought.

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1. grand jury

   A grand jury is a legal body consisting of a group of citizens who are summoned and sworn in by a court to investigate potential criminal conduct and determine whether there is sufficient evidence to charge a person with a crime. This jury decides whether criminal charges should be brought, rather than deciding on a person's guilt or innocence, like a trial jury would. The grand jury can subpoena documents, physical evidence, and witnesses to testify during the investigative process. The proceedings are usually kept confidential.

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1. Grand jury

   A grand jury is not an arm of the court but "is an institution separate from the courts, over whose functioning the courts do not preside," that is empowered to conduct official proceedings to investigate potential criminal conduct and to determine whether criminal charges should be brought. The "grand jury" may compel the production of documents and may compel the sworn testimony of witnesses to appear before it. Currently, only the United States retains grand juries, although some other common law jurisdictions formerly employed them, and most other jurisdictions employ some other type of preliminary hearing. Grand juries perform both accusatory and investigatory functions. The investigatory functions of the grand jury include obtaining and reviewing documents and other evidence and hearing the sworn testimony of witnesses that appear before it. The grand jury's accusatory function is to determine whether or not there is probable cause to believe that one or more persons committed a certain offense within the venue of the district court. The "grand jury" in the United States is composed of 16 to 23 citizens. In Ireland, they also functioned as local government authorities. A grand jury is so named because traditionally it has a greater number of jurors than a trial jury.

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1. Grand Jury

   a jury appointed to decide whether there are grounds for an accusation to warrant a trial.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Grand Jury in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Grand Jury in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Grand Jury in a Sentence

1. Gary Lavine:

   There is a grand jury, otherwise the subpoena would not have been issued, the subpoena was served on the commission. However, it has been interpreted to apply to each commissioner individually. In other words, the commission received the subpoena institutionally — I was never served a subpoena but it has been interpreted that the subpoenas apply to each commissioner including me.

2. Larry Bloomquist:

   I pray that when Grand Jury hears this case, they will agree.

3. Special Prosecutor Rosemary Khoury:

   This special grand jury returned a' No Bill.' This term means there is insufficient evidence to indict or accuse Officer Dejoure Mercer of a crime.

4. Robert Carter:

   The way the case got from general session to circuit court was via criminal information, the criminal information is when a defendant will waive his or her right to be presented to the grand jury and that’s what happened here, so the case goes from general sessions to circuit court directly via the criminal information, and then that general sessions case has to be disposed of so the circuit court case can be handled, which is exactly what happened here on the same date.

5. Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal:

   I was deeply troubled to read the allegations contained in last month's Pennsylvania grand jury report, the report revealed that sexual assaults on children -- and efforts to cover up such assaults -- were far more widespread in Pennsylvania than we ever thought possible.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Grand Jury
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Grand_Jury
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Grand Jury
5. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#GrandJury