KQED KQED Newsroom June 22, 2024
Juries. Theres a civil grand jury and criminal grand jury. So if the focus has been on the criminal grand juries, the job of the criminal grand jury is to investigate crimes, basically. Usually felonies. And what most people dont understand about criminal grand juries is that it is a proceeding shrouded completely in secrecy. Theres only one lawyer in the room with the grand jurors and that is a prosecutor. No judge in the room. No defense attorney. And then it is whatever information or evidence the prosecutor gives to the grand juries is considered by them, then they determine whether or not...
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