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Overhaul the grand jury system.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Among my biggest complaints about the grand jury system -- at least the way it is run on the federal level, which is similar to the way it is run in the state-level jurisdictions where I practice -- is that the whole show is run by prosecutors without the presence of a judge, defense lawyers, and lawyers for those giving testimony. In the vast majority of instances, grand juries merely rubber stamp prosecutors' proposed indictments.  As one or more of my other colleagues have said, a prosecutor can get an indictment of a plant. For me, such a statement is not only an indictment of the grand jury system as it currently exists, but also is an indictment of every prosecutor who guns for convictions rather than true justice.  On a recent listserv posting came news of a website entitled Grand Jury Resistance Project...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on April 23, 2009 (boomark / email).