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- The Grand Jury will determine whether the testimony offered here has any relation or not.†
Book 3 *grand jury = a group of citizens who decide whether there is enough evidence to formally accuse someone of a crime
- "That's for the Grand Jury to determine!" the coroner said "And you cannot interrupt these proceedings any longer!†
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- "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"."†
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- "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.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(grand jury) a group of citizens who decide if there is enough evidence to formally accuse someone of a crime
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)