Grand Jury: Information, definitions, and explanations of what grand juries are and what they do.

2/26/03
Added Information about Grand Juries in the District of Columbia. Including "The Grand Jury of Tomorrow", a report researched and developed by a special committee under the sponsorship of the Council for Court Excellence.
Added copy of Opinion from Kentucky Circuit Court regarding Grand Jury Secrecy.
10/16/02
New Page added: What does a subpoena look like? An image of an actual subpoena form the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
Link added to the Grand Juries in the News Page - "The Role Grand Juries Play in Investigating Terrorism": An article by Susan Brenner and Lori Shaw discussing the role of a grand jury in investigating terrorism. Click Here
4/10/02 - Indictment against Lynne Stewart, a defense attorney for Sheik Rahman, who was convicted for his role in the first World Trade Center bombing. The indictment, which also includes several other defendants. Grand Juries in the News
4/02 - Ongoing project to update external hyperlinks
3/22/02
An article by Susan Brenner and Lori Shaw answering many questions about using a grand jury to investigate the attacks of September 11. Click Here
3/21/02
New Page Added: Information about Prosecutors. This page contains links to sites containing information about prosecutors.
Additional links added for Kansas Grand Juries. Click here
3/17/02
New Feedback Added: Can I get out of serving? It would be such a burden to spend all that time on a grand jury.
New Links: A 1906 treatise on grand juries
New Actual Grand Jury Documents
Federal courts � links to federal district courts and to the federal circuit courts of appeals (the district courts are the trial courts, the circuit courts are the intermediate appellate courts and the Supreme Court is the ultimate appellate court)
http://www.uscourts.gov/allinks.html#all
Federal prosecutors � this site provides access to every U.S. Attorney�s Office in the country. U.S. Attorneys are federal prosecutors; one is appointed for every federal judicial district in every state. The site gives you the information you need to contact a U.S. Attorney�s Office.
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/offices/index.html
State prosecutors � this site provides links to local prosecuting attorneys in each of the states
http://www.co.eaton.mi.us/ecpa/proslist.htm
3/8/02
New links added about Jury Service
New Link Page added about Grand Jury Studies
3/3/02
Jerry J. Cox, Prosecutorial Misconduct: A Kentucky Primer
THE ADVOCATE (March 2001) Click Here
Prosecutorial Misconduct Website
http://www.lawmall.com/abuse/
(this website is devoted to general prosecutorial misconduct, not just misconduct involving grand juries, though it does deal with conduct affecting grand jury proceedings)
Battle Between a Grand Jury and a Prosecutor: What Happens when a Grand Jury Goes after the Local Prosecutor?
Ex Parte Jones County Grand Jury v. Jeannene T. Pacific, 705 So.2d 1308 (Miss. 1997) Click Here
Obstructing a Grand Jury
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed the convictions of three New York police officers for conspiring to obstruct justice in connection with the investigation of the 1997 assault on Abner Louima in a Brooklyn police station. Click Here
Federal Guidelines for Child Witnesses:
U.S. Department of Justice, Witness Guidelines � Article VI (Guidelines for Child Victims and Child Witnesses) Click Here