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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.
Grand jury means those twelve persons impaneled by a
Grand jury or “grand juror” shall mean a jury or juror summoned to serve at a grand jury proceeding.

Examples of Grand jury in a sentence

  • Grand jury supervision shall be assigned equally among the active district judges.

  • Grand jury trials scheduled from April 2020 to May 11, 2020 are continued, other trials are up to the judge, grand jury proceedings continued, civil deadlines remain in place; April 28, 2020 – order to continue civil or criminal trails scheduled on or before May 31, 2020; resume jury trials June 1, 2020; May 14, 2020 – resume jury trials June 1, 2020; regular court business hours to resume June 1, 2020; June 24, 2020 – order re emergency conditions under the CARES Act.

  • Grand jury investigations in direct referral matters are generally not necessary, except where related to investigations of false and fictitious claims for tax refunds, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 286 and 287.15 The SAC refers the case to the United States Attorney by sending him or her a grand jury investigation letter (and completed IRS Form 9131) and related exhibits and by sending a copy of all those materials to the Tax Division.

  • Grand jury proceedings are conducted in secret, and the only people permitted to be present are the grand jury members, the government attorney, the witness under examination, the court reporter, and an interpreter, if required.

  • Grand jury rooms are similar to courtrooms, however they do not have a judge and gallery.

  • Grand jury proceedings are confidential, and a broker-dealer that receives a subpoena is prohibited from directly or indirectly notifying the person who is the subject of the investigation about the existence of the grand jury subpoena, its contents or the information used to reply to it.

  • Today, however, many developing countries have abundance of skilled and scientific manpower as well as unskilled and semiskilled labour.

  • Grand jury rooms are provided by the judiciary for use by the US Attorney.

  • Open meetings required; Video teleconferencing; Secret ballots54953.1. Grand jury testimony by members54953.3. Conditions to attendance at meetings54953.5. Recording meetings54953.6. Broadcasting meetings54953.7. Greater access to meetings permitted54954.

  • Grand jury materials cannot be publicly disclosed absent a majority vote by the Judiciary Committee.


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.
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

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 lawsuit, proceeding, arbitration or other alternative resolution process, Governmental Authority investigation hearing, audit, appeal, administrative proceeding or judicial proceeding.

  • Specified Jurisdiction means with respect to Party A

  • Permitted Jurisdiction means the United States or any state thereof, Belgium, Bermuda, Canada, Cayman Islands, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom or British Crown Dependencies, any other member country of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or any political subdivision of any of the foregoing.

  • Permitted Jurisdictions has the meaning specified in Section 801(a)(1).

  • Restricted Jurisdiction means any jurisdiction where local laws or regulations may result in a significant risk of civil, regulatory or criminal exposure if information concerning the Acquisition is sent or made available in that jurisdiction;

  • Related Agreement means any Contract which is or is to be entered into at the Closing or otherwise pursuant to this Agreement. The Related Agreements executed by a specified Person shall be referred to as "such Person's Related Agreements," "its Related Agreements" or another similar expression.

  • Permitted Junior Debt means any Permitted Junior Notes and any Permitted Junior Loans.

  • Youth court means the court established pursuant to this chapter to hear all proceedings in

  • Amendment No. 5 means Amendment No. 5 to this Agreement dated as of August 7, 2020, by and among the Borrower, Holdings, the other Loan Parties party thereto, the Extending Revolving Credit Lenders party thereto, and the Administrative Agent.

  • Official proceeding means any proceeding before a legislative, judicial, administrative, or other governmental agency or official authorized to take evidence under oath and includes any proceeding before a referee, hearing examiner, commissioner, notary, or other person taking testimony or a deposition in connection with an official proceeding.

  • Amendment No. 7 means the Seventh Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 28, 2019, among Borrower, each of the Lenders party thereto and the Administrative Agent.

  • Qualified Jurisdiction at any time of determination, any jurisdiction in which Kimco or any of its Subsidiaries is doing business at such time the government of which jurisdiction is internationally recognized at such time, including by the United States Government.

  • Amendment No. 6 means the Sixth Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of May 23, 2018, among Borrower, each of the Lenders party thereto and the Administrative Agent.

  • Designated Jurisdiction means any country or territory to the extent that such country or territory itself is the subject of any Sanction.

  • Other Credit Agreement means that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between Pledgor, as borrower, the financial institutions as lenders from time to time party thereto and Investec, as Administrative Agent for the lenders.

  • Amendment No. 2 means Amendment No. 2 to this Agreement dated as of November 15, 2019, by and among the Borrower, Holdings, the other Loan Parties party thereto, the Second Incremental Term Lenders, and the Administrative Agent.

  • Amendment No. 4 means Amendment No. 4 to this Agreement dated as of August 7, 2020, by and among the Borrower, Holdings, the other Loan Parties party thereto, the Extending Term Lenders, and the Administrative Agent.

  • Restricted Junior Payment means (i) any dividend or other distribution, direct or indirect, on account of any shares of any class of stock of Company now or hereafter outstanding, except a dividend payable solely in shares of that class of stock to the holders of that class, (ii) any redemption, retirement, sinking fund or similar payment, purchase or other acquisition for value, direct or indirect, of any shares of any class of stock of Company now or hereafter outstanding, (iii) any payment made to retire, or to obtain the surrender of, any outstanding warrants, options or other rights to acquire shares of any class of stock of Company now or hereafter outstanding, and (iv) any payment or prepayment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, or redemption, purchase, retirement, defeasance (including in-substance or legal defeasance), sinking fund or similar payment with respect to, any Subordinated Indebtedness.

  • Amendment No. 8 means that certain Amendment No. 8, dated as of the Amendment No. 8 Effective Date, by and among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders party thereto, and acknowledged and agreed by the Guarantors.

  • Judicial commitment means a commitment by a court pursuant

  • Execution Venue means the entity with which client orders, assets or securities are placed and/or to which the Company transmits Client’s orders for execution.

  • Covered Jurisdiction means the United States (or any state or commonwealth thereof or the District of Columbia).

  • Specified Courts is defined in Section 6.9.

  • Sanctioned Jurisdiction means, at any time, a country, territory or geographical region that is subject to, the target of, or purported to be subject to, Sanctions Laws.