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Remind the good folks watching tonight what happens in a grand jury. a prosecutor like mueller or one of his chief deputies sits down with this group of citizens in a federal courthouse in washington or wherever they re impanelled. they develop, two, three days a week sometimes, a relationship. they bring evidence and witnesses before the grand jury. take it from there. and then it s time for the grand jury to return a true bill, to return an indictment, and essentially the prosecutor lays out the proposed charges, puts them down on paper, and the grand jury has to vote. and if the majority of the grand jury finds that there is probable cause to believe that an offense against the united states, a criminal act, has occurred, they can return the indictment. however, according to doj practice, a prosecutor will not propose an indictment unless the prosecutor believes that he or she can prove beyond a reasonable doubt at jury trial of the defendant s peers that in fact a crime has been ....
The sourcing that we have, which could be anyone. all right. jeremy bash, let s talk about the process. remind the good folks watching tonight what happens in a grand jury. a prosecutor like mueller or one of his chief deputies sits down with this group of citizens in a federal courthouse in washington or wherever they re impanelled. they develop, two, three days a week sometimes, a relationship. they bring evidence and witnesses before the grand jury. take it from there. and then it s time for the grand jury to return a true bill, to return an indictment, and essentially the prosecutor lays out the proposed charges, puts them down on paper, and the grand jury has to vote. and if the majority of the grand jury finds that there is probable cause to believe that an offense against the united states, a criminal act, has occurred, they can return the indictment. however, according to doj practice, a prosecutor will not propose an indictment unless the prosecutor believes that he or ....
Jury, a prosecutor like mueller or one of his chief deputies sits down with this group of citizens in a federal courthouse in washington or wherever they re impaneled. they develop two, three days a week sometimes a relationship. they bring evidence and witnesses before the grand jury. take it from there. and then it s time for the grand jury to return a true bill, to return an indictment and essentially the prosecutor lays out the proposed charges, puts them down on paper and the grand jury has to vote. and if the majority of the grand jury finds that there is probable cause to believe that an offense against the united states, a criminal act has occurred, they can return the indictment. however, according to doj practice, a prosecutor will not propose an indictment unless the prosecutor believes that he or she can prove yard at a jury trial of the defendant s peers that in fact a crime has been committed. once the indictment is returned, then it s really up to a ....