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  • It looked like a pathetic version of a grand jury hearing from an episode of one of those courtroom dramas on TV.†   (source)
  • The Mississippi grand jury's decision not to press charges against Walker was Oswald's motivation for purchasing a rifle.†   (source)
  • We'll take it in front of the grand jury, get an indictment, and go arrest the girl.†   (source)
  • "That's up to the grand jury."†   (source)
  • In Chicago, a federal grand jury had handed down indictments against eight demonstrators at the Democratic convention the previous summer.†   (source)
  • The lynching and the callous decision of the Pearl River County Grand Jury were surely on all their minds.†   (source)
  • Ofrah waits beside a door with a brass plate that says Grand Jury Room.   (source)
    grand jury = a group of citizens who decide whether or not there is enough evidence to formally accuse someone of a crime
  • I walk into the grand jury room alone, but somehow my parents are with me.   (source)
  • The case was turned over to their office, and they're preparing to take it to a grand jury.   (source)
  • Ofrah said they would be leading protests around the city if the grand jury didn't indict.   (source)
  • Doubt they're worried about the grand jury's decision.   (source)
  • All these people though, and none of them can go in the grand jury room with me.   (source)
  • "And Starr will have to testify to the grand jury," Daddy says.   (source)
  • I've talked to detectives and the DA, and next week I'll talk to the grand jury.   (source)
  • That's how long I was in the grand jury room.   (source)
  • "We don't know when the grand jury gon' make their decision," Daddy says.   (source)
  • Now, Lord, tomorrow is a big day for my baby girl as she goes before this grand jury.   (source)
  • The door to the grand jury room creaks open, and the DA, Ms. Monroe, looks out.   (source)
  • Still no decision from the grand jury, so we're still living.   (source)
  • I wanna get so caught up in him that the grand jury's decision isn't even a thing.   (source)
  • It takes me a few minutes lying here to remember it's grand jury day.   (source)
  • Ofrah, who said the grand jury will announce their decision in a few hours.   (source)
  • "It ain't no damn coincidence that somebody's trying to scare us the night before she testifies to the grand jury," Daddy says.   (source)
  • No matter what that grand jury decided, I'm still "Starr who was with Khalil," and I don't wanna be seen tonight.   (source)
  • If you're just tuning in, the grand jury has decided not to indict Officer Brian Cruise Jr. in the death of Khalil Harris.   (source)
  • It's been over two weeks since I talked to the grand jury, and now we're waiting for their decision, which is similar to waiting for a meteor to hit.   (source)
  • Ofrah arranged for me to do an interview with one of the national news programs today — exactly a week before I testify before the grand jury next Monday.   (source)
  • The grand jury does.   (source)
  • I know when I go into the grand jury room I will be well protected and cared for.†   (source)
  • Grand juries in Indianapolis and Toronto found this unconvincing.†   (source)
  • "I wasn't hot to take it to the grand jury in the first place.†   (source)
  • My weekends consisted of waiting for the grand jury and then what followed.†   (source)
  • Link's mom stood up dramatically and walked down the aisle toward the Gatlin Grand Jury.†   (source)
  • Do you remember testifying about this lineup in a grand jury proceeding?†   (source)
  • At two I was brought into a waiting area outside the grand jury room.†   (source)
  • "Held for action of the grand jury," the judge said finally.†   (source)
  • I told her about the grand jury and the lineup and about Gail.†   (source)
  • "My dear," said the man, "it may have been a crime of passion, but I know three people who served on that grand jury.†   (source)
  • ON SEPTEMBER 12, 1895, a Philadelphia grand jury voted to indict Holmes for the murder of Benjamin Pitezel.†   (source)
  • Five days before the hearing was to take place, Lawton went before the Chatham County grand jury and presented his evidence in secret session.†   (source)
  • The grand jury hearing is June 12.†   (source)
  • Do you understand that I would have had the obligation today to find whether or not there was probable cause to believe that you committed the acts for which you are charged, and that by waiving the probable cause hearing, you are not requiring me to find that probable cause; you will now be bound over to the grand jury, and I will bind this case over to the superior court?†   (source)
  • What are the odds on the grand jury if we send our boy over tomorrow on the obstruction and bribery charges?†   (source)
  • I had black and I had red, neither of which was an appropriate choice for the virgin coed the grand jury would expect.†   (source)
  • She was happy I had Tess with me, asked questions about when the grand jury would be held, and fretted about the lineup— any close proximity to him.†   (source)
  • "Do you remember—looking at page sixteen of the grand jury minutes, line ten—'You picked him out of the lineup?†   (source)
  • "Pursuant to your request," it read in part, "this is to advise you that the above-mentioned captioned defendant has been indicted by the grand jury."†   (source)
  • If you're as strong as you were at the prelim and grand jury, Paquette will have to have him take the stand."†   (source)
  • I was being subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury on November 4 at 2:00 P.M. I was supposed to go down to Marshall Street with Lila after she got back from class.†   (source)
  • I may seem colder to you in there than I am right now but, remember, we're in there to win an indictment and to a certain extent—well, the grand jury is made up of twenty-five civilians, and we're onstage."†   (source)
  • "The grand jury," she said.†   (source)
  • She explained that I was about to view a lineup and that afterward we would talk about the grand jury and she would tell me exactly what to expect, how the room would look when I walked in, how many civilians there would be in the room, and what kind of questions they might ask—questions, she warned, that might be hard to answer but that I must.†   (source)
  • The fact that an accused man was deprived of a fair trial, kidnapped and murdered by a lynch mob from a Mississippi jail apparently had no effect on the thinking of the Grand Jury.†   (source)
  • The point that crushed most was that the FBI had supplied a dossier of evidence identifying the lynchers, and the Pearl River County Grand Jury had decided not to look inside it.†   (source)
  • If there was any doubt as to how "Southern Justice" operates in the State of Mississippi, it was completely dispelled … when the Pearl River County Grand Jury failed to return any indictments or even consider the massive information compiled by the FBI in the sensational Mack Parker kidnap-lynch murder case….†   (source)
  • The Grand Jury will determine whether the testimony offered here has any relation or not.†   (source)
  • About the square it was already known that the special Grand Jury would meet tomorrow.†   (source)
  • Grand jury meets today.†   (source)
  • It exposed politicians—one step ahead of the Grand Jury; it attacked monopolies—in the name of the downtrodden; it mocked the rich and the successful—in the manner of those who could never be either.†   (source)
  • "That's for the Grand Jury to determine!" the coroner said "And you cannot interrupt these proceedings any longer!†   (source)
  • Roark had been indicted by a grand jury, had pleaded "Not guilty" and had refused to make any other statement.†   (source)
  • ""we, the Jury, believe that the said occurrence was murder and recommend that the said Bigger Thomas be held to the Grand Jury on a charge of murder, until released by due process of law"."†   (source)
  • WHEN Byron reached town he found that he could not see the sheriff until noon, since the sheriff would be engaged all morning with the special Grand Jury.†   (source)
  • "Having been bound over to the Grand Jury and indicted by it, having been arraigned and having pled not guilty to the charge of murder and been ordered to trial"all in less than a week, Bigger lay one sunless grey morning on his cot, staring vacantly at the black steel bars of the Cook County Jail.†   (source)
  • He knew that by night the Grand Jury would have indicted Christmas, and Brown--or Burch--would be a free agent save for his bond to appear as a witness at next month's court.†   (source)
  • …air, like policemen in disguise and not especially caring if the disguise hid the policeman or not) countrymen in overalls moved, with almost the air of monks in a cloister, speaking quietly among themselves of money and crops, looking quietly now and then upward at the ceiling beyond which the Grand Jury was preparing behind locked doors to take the life of a man whom few of them had ever seen to know, for having taken the life of a woman whom even fewer of them had known to see.†   (source)
  • Shan't see ye again very soon, I guess; unless it's before the Grand Jury."†   (source)
  • For with this granted, he would be able to impanel a grand jury and in the event of a true bill being returned against Clyde, then within a month or six weeks, proceed to trial.†   (source)
  • And when Mason appeared before him with the request that he fix the date of the Special Grand Jury by which Clyde might be indicted, this was set for August fifth.†   (source)
  • And Mason, through an appeal to the Governor, as all now knew was planning to secure a special sitting of the Supreme Court, which would naturally involve an immediate session of the County Grand Jury in order to hear the evidence and either indict or discharge Clyde.†   (source)
  • Also information as to whether any appeal for a special term of the Supreme Court had as yet been acted upon, and if so what judge had been named to sit, and when and where the Grand Jury would be gathered.†   (source)
  • Also since he personally having gathered the testimony was the one best fitted to present it, he decided to communicate with the governor of the state for the purpose of obtaining a special term of the Supreme Court for this district, with its accompanying special session of the local grand jury, which would then be subject to his call at any time.†   (source)
  • …should be done about it, Esta, who some time after Clyde had arrived in Lycurgus had married and was living in the southeast portion of Denver, chanced to read in The Rocky Mountain News—and this just subsequent to Clyde's indictment by the Grand Jury at Bridgeburg: BOY SLAYER OF WORKING GIRL INDICTED Bridgeburg, N. Y., Aug. 6: A special Grand Jury appointed by Governor Stouderback, of this state, to sit in the case of Clyde Griffiths, the nephew of the wealthy collar manufacturer of…†   (source)
  • Indeed previous to Catchuman's visit, a coroner's jury had been called, with Mason attending and directing even, the verdict being that the dead girl had come to her death through a plot devised and executed by one Clyde Griffiths who was then and there in 'the county jail of Bridgeburg and that he be held to await the verdict of the County Grand Jury to whom his crime was soon to be presented.†   (source)
  • 6: A special Grand Jury appointed by Governor Stouderback, of this state, to sit in the case of Clyde Griffiths, the nephew of the wealthy collar manufacturer of the same name, of Lycurgus, New York, recently charged with the killing of Miss Roberta Alden, of Biltz, New York, at Big Bittern Lake in the Adirondacks on July 8th last, to-day returned an indictment charging murder in the first degree.†   (source)
  • …whose name he found in his lawyers' directory, and at once arranging for a conference with him, since Mason seemed to think that the letters were most vital to his case, although he was so much overawed by Atterbury's voice that he was quick to explain that by no means had he planned as yet to use publicly the name of Sondra or the letters either, but rather to reserve their actuality for the private inspection of the grand jury, unless Clyde should choose to confess and avoid a trial.†   (source)
  • Fit to charge a grand jury, or, what is just now of more pressing necessity, able to do the honors of Christmas eve in the hall of Templeton?†   (source)
  • The grand jury rejected the bill, on its being proved that I was on the Orkney Islands at the hour the body of my friend was found; and a fortnight after my removal I was liberated from prison.†   (source)
  • Article V No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any Criminal Case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or…†   (source)
  • The grand jury presently indicted Luigi for murder in the first degree, and Angelo as accessory before the fact.†   (source)
  • All the constitutions which take cognizance of this matter, give to the House of Delegates the exclusive right of impeachment; excepting only the constitution of North Carolina, which grants the same privilege to grand juries.†   (source)
  • "You have heard the presentment that the grand jury have made, Nathaniel Bumppo," said the Judge; "what do you plead to the charge?"†   (source)
  • Accordingly, after the period we have mentioned had elapsed, the cry of the officer to "clear the way for the grand jury," announced the entrance of that body.†   (source)
  • Amendment V No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or…†   (source)
  • J. J. getting him off the grand jury list and the other give him a leg over the stile.†   (source)
  • They would hear what counsel had to say in his stirring address to the grand jury.†   (source)
  • She left no stone unturned to prevent the grand jury finding the bill.†   (source)
  • I have known ambition, when cured at court by frequent disappointments (which are the only physic for it), to break out again in a contest for foreman of the grand jury at an assizes; and have heard of a man who had so far conquered avarice, as to give away many a sixpence, that comforted himself, at last, on his deathbed, by making a crafty and advantageous bargain concerning his ensuing funeral, with an undertaker who had married his only child.†   (source)
  • And give me leave to say, when we suffer any temptation to atone for dishonesty itself, we are as candid and merciful as we ought to be; and so far I confess I have gone; for I have often pitied the fate of a highwayman, when I have been on the grand jury; and have more than once applied to the judge on the behalf of such as have had any mitigating circumstances in their case; but when dishonesty is attended with any blacker crime, such as cruelty, murder, ingratitude, or the like,…†   (source)
  • While I was under these influences of sorrow for him, came notice to me that the next sessions approaching there would be a bill preferred to the grand jury against me, and that I should be certainly tried for my life at the Old Bailey.†   (source)
  • I know not how it was, but by the indefatigable application of my diligent governess I had no bill preferred against me the first sessions, I mean to the grand jury, at Guildhall; so I had another month or five weeks before me, and without doubt this ought to have been accepted by me, as so much time given me for reflection upon what was past, and preparation for what was to come; or, in a word, I ought to have esteemed it as a space given me for repentance, and have employed it as…†   (source)
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