How to Use grand jury in a Sentence

grand jury

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  • The case is also set to be heard by a grand jury, the spokesperson said.
    — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The grand jury charged that DiMaio’s claims were false.
    — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
  • The feds say Mapes lied about it to the grand jury to protect Madigan.
    — Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2023
  • Because the grand jury decided not to indict, the case has been dropped.
    — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Six of its eighteen members were Black, the first Black men to serve on a federal grand jury.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The judge said probable cause was the standard of proof for a grand jury to indict in the rejection.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 24 Dec. 2023
  • That includes the Golden Bear for best film going to the movie’s producers and the Silver Bear grand jury prize.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2024
  • There are also process-crime charges involving perjury to the grand jury.
    — The Editors, National Review, 16 Aug. 2023
  • In June 2010, a grand jury indicted him on wire fraud and extortion charges.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2023
  • All seven are slotted to appear before a grand jury on March 21, court records show.
    — Aditi Sangal, CNN, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Mogg testified to the grand jury that there was no evidence that either Tupac or Knight had a weapon.
    — John L. Smith, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Brito was indicted by a grand jury related to the attack on the officers.
    — Landon Mion, Fox News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • That grand jury is still hearing testimony and will need to vote as to whether or not Mr. Trump should be indicted.
    — CBS News, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Two months after his guilty plea, while still in custody, a federal grand jury in San Diego handed down the indictment against him and Aguilar in the killings.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The grand jury transcripts will be made public if the court approves the district attorney’s request to release them.
    — Fzarkhin, oregonlive, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The investigation is ongoing, and police said the case will be referred to a grand jury.
    — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • An Ohio grand jury decided Thursday not to charge a woman accused of trying to flush the corpse of her stillborn fetus down the toilet.
    — Luke Gentile, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Reporters on Thursday posted that members of the grand jury were entering the courthouse.
    — Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 27 July 2023
  • They were indicted on first-degree murder charges by a Suffolk grand jury in June 2006.
    — Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 26 Aug. 2023
  • But charges in her killing were delayed, pending DNA test results on a hair recovered from her remains, and the grand jury in the case continued its work.
    — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Two months after his guilty plea in that case, while still in custody, a federal grand jury in San Diego handed down the indictment against both men.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Later that year, however, a grand jury found no crime had been committed.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Only the prosecution presents evidence to the grand jury.
    — Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The grand jury was not allowed to consider whether the shooter could have — or should have — retreated because of Missouri’s self-defense law.
    — Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Its findings must be presented to a standard grand jury in the County before an indictment can be made.
    — Graham Kates, CBS News, 14 July 2023
  • The cold case was presented to a grand jury, and an indictment was returned, despite no body having been found, FOX 10 reported.
    — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Trump is one of 19 co-defendants in a broad racketeering indictment handed up by a grand jury last week.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The judge also postponed the grand jury proceeding from November to Jan. 18, to give more time to review the material the defense wished to be presented to the grand jury.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The person who confirmed that the grand jury would be hearing other matters was not authorized to discuss it and spoke on condition of anonymity.
    — Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2023
  • In 2019, a federal grand jury indicted the two officers on civil rights charges.
    — Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, 30 Oct. 2023

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