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 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.

The Nuttall EncyclopediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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. Dennis Farris:

   They collected evidence, they took interviews, statements, they talked to witnesses, they analyzed body-worn camera video. They are not being allowed to testify before the grand jury and they're not being called as witnesses. And also, the police officers themselves are not being invited to testify before the grand jury. And so what we have is another case where Jose Garza is manipulating what the grand jury hears in order to produce a desired outcome. this is what he ran on and what people need to understand when he ran for district attorney, he ran on, ‘I am going to indict police officers for wrongdoing,’.

2. The Atlanta-area prosecutors:

   Each of the sixteen persons who signed the unofficial Elector Certificate ultimately submitted to the National Archives received a similar target letter alerting, that person both that his testimony was required by the special purpose grand jury and that he was a target of the investigation.

3. Subodh Chandra:

   Any presentation to a grand jury -- without the prosecutor advocating for Tamir -- is a charade, to get so-called experts to assist in the whitewash -- when the world has the video of what happened -- is all the more alarming.

4. Paul Callan:

   McCulloch's approach in presenting virtually every shred of existing evidence to the grand jury is unusual but not unprecedented.

5. Joe Mendoza:

   I think a detective would probably present it to a DA, but a grand jury is not out of play either.

References

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