All 4 Uses

grand jury
in
Black Like Me
(Auto-generated)

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.... The axiom that a man is innocent until proved guilty by a court of law has been flagrantly ignored once again in the State of Mississippi.†

grand jury = a group of citizens who decide whether there is enough evidence to formally accuse someone of a crime
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.†
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.†
The lynching and the callous decision of the Pearl River County Grand Jury were surely on all their minds.†
*

Definitions:

(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)