Grand jury definition

Grand jury means those twelve persons impaneled by a superior court to hear, examine, and investigate evidence concerning criminal activity and corruption.
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Grand jury means those twelve persons impaneled by a
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Grand jury or “grand juror” shall mean a jury or juror summoned to serve at a grand jury proceeding.
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Examples of Grand jury in a sentence

  • Permanent employees shall be given leave of absence with pay for working time lost when called to serve on petit (not Grand) jury duty or as subpoenaed witnesses.

  • Examples; county, state and federal jury duty; regular court jury and Grand jury duty.

  • Grand jury membership was limited to wealthy landowners, large farmers, tradesmen and merchants.

  • Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California.


More Definitions of Grand jury

Grand jury means a body of the required number of qualified persons who are duly convened and impanelled by the presiding judge of the superior court and who are sworn to inquire into public offenses that may be tried within the county, including corrupt or willful misconduct in office of public officials within the county.
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Grand jury means a body of the required number of persons returned from the citizens of the county before the superior court of the county, and charged and
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Related to Grand jury

  • Judicial Branch Entities means any California superior or appellate court, the Judicial Council of California, and the Habeas Corpus Resource Center.

  • Judicial Branch Entity or “Judicial Branch Entities” means any California superior or appellate court, the Judicial Council of California, and the Habeas Corpus Resource Center.

  • Action or Proceeding means any action, suit, proceeding, arbitration or investigation by or before any Governmental Authority.

  • company limited by guarantee means a company having the liability of its members limited by the memorandum to such amount as the members may respectively undertake to contribute to the assets of the company in the event of its being wound up;

  • Specified Jurisdiction means with respect to Party A