Grand Jury Quotes
On secrecy, scrutiny, and the weight of a grand jury's word.
These Grand Jury quotes center on confidentiality, with one speaker denying any leaked information and another calling that confidentiality genuinely important to the process. The theme connects to About quotes on procedure.
As a former prosecutor, I never presented a case in front of the grand jury that didn't result in an indictment. Bottom line: If a prosecutor wants to indict a case, the case gets indicted.
The duty of the grand jury is to separate fact from fiction, after a full and impartial examination of all the evidence involved, and decide if evidence supported the filing of any criminal charges against Darren Wilson. They accepted and...
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I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had...
The values of confidentiality of matters occurring before the grand jury is very important.
About Quotes
That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have...
Bill Clinton was impeached primarily for criminal conduct: lying under oath and misleading a federal grand jury about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Nixon would have been impeached for a wide array of criminal acts, as well as abuses of...
I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.
Against Quotes
In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked.
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Other lines describe the drawn-out nature of grand jury investigations, including one that couldn't reasonably continue forever. For more on facing scrutiny directly, see Against quotes.
