Special Grand Jury to Investigate Donald Trump & Co: Here's a Detailed Grand Jury Explainer

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2. 50% + 1 (which is 9) can return indictments on each count :)1

(my bad above, as I should have kept watching Glenn's video).

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3. LOL (my bad again, it's 12 ... not 9 OK I'll keep listening and stay put now lol)

Lock 'em up.

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4. (Link) How does the Grand Jury work in New York?

At: https://www.johnbuzalaw.com/blog/2014/12/how-does-the-grand-jury-work-in-new-york/

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A grand jury, at least in New York, is composed of anywhere between 16 to 23 jurors. They hear testimony and if 12 or more of them agree that a crime has been committed, they return an indictment. An indictment is a fancy word for accusation. Once a person is indicted, the case then proceeds to trial. In many states, including New York, you cannot proceed to trial on a felony complaint unless you’ve either been indicted or you waived indictment. So it is a critical part of the process.

There is no judge in the grand jury. Nor is there a defense attorney. And the defendant isn’t there unless he is testifying. The way the process works is the prosecutor ask the grand jury to consider charging a particular individual with whatever crime the prosecutor thinks the person committed. He then calls witnesses who establish that the defendant committed the crime that the grand jury is considering. At the conclusion of all the evidence, the prosecutor then charges the grand jurors on the applicable law and leaves them to vote. They then vote on whether there is reasonable cause (probable cause) to believe a crime has been committed based on the testimony they’ve heard. This basically means that they determine whether it was more likely than not that the evidence establishes that the defendant is guilty of the crime.

If 12 or more grand jurors believe a crime had been committed, they vote an indictment. Conversely, if 12 or more don’t believe a crime had been committed then they vote “No True Bill” which dismisses the case. The grand jury can also fail to reach an agreement, which means the prosecutor can call more witnesses if he wants to do so. Although a judge isn’t there to oversee the proceedings, she does get a chance to review the minutes from the proceedings. If the prosecutor ended up doing something wrong, then the judge can dismiss the indictment with leave for the prosecutor to represent.

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5. Thanks!

My mother was on a Grand Jury once here in New York, it seemed like it lasted forever. And, amazingly, she was foreman. Of course she couldn't discuss what it was about, I just know that a very young person had to testify and that upset her.