The grand jury took a swipe at the State Welfare Department's handling of federal funds granted for child welfare services in foster homes.

A federal grand jury called 10 witnesses yesterday in an investigation of the affairs of Ben Stein, 47, who collected big fees as a `` labor consultant '' and operator of a janitors' service.

On November 15, 2007, attention was brought once again to Barry Bonds as he was indicted by a federal grand jury for perjury and obstruction of justice in connection to his testimony before the grand jury regarding the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative ( BALCO ), a San Francisco Bay area lab known to be involved in the distribution of steroids to professional athletes.

Like a grand jury, FISC is not an adversarial court: the federal government is the only party to its proceedings.

The existence of the grand coalition on federal level helped smaller parties ' electoral prospects in state elections.

As a result of that federal election, the grand coalition came to an end.

** Bill Clinton, Democrat, was impeached on December 19, 1998, by the House of Representatives on articles charging perjury ( specifically, lying to a federal grand jury ) by a 228 – 206 vote, and obstruction of justice by a 221 – 212 vote.

* 2001 – A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.

* 1989 – A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

On February 5, 2002, Lindh was indicted by a federal grand jury on ten charges:

* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: a federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal, involving President Bill Clinton.

In March 1989, a federal grand jury indicted Milken on 98 counts of racketeering and fraud.

* 2002 – A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas indicts former Enron Corp. chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.

In the U. S., if the defendant is charged with a federal felony, he has the right to an indictment by a grand jury pursuant to the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.

Jurisprudential developments in the American law of perjury have revolved around the facilitation of " perjury prosecutions and thereby enhance the reliability of testimony before federal courts and grand juries.

* Barry Bonds has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly perjuring himself in testimony before a grand jury in 2003 as part of the BALCO steroid scandal, in which he denied using any performance-enhancing drugs.

On August 19, 2010, a federal grand jury at the U. S. District Court in Washington, D. C., indicted Clemens on six felony counts involving perjury, false statements and obstruction of Congress.

After Washington prosecutors showed " a renewed interest in the case in the final months of 2008 ," a federal grand jury was convened in January 2009 to hear evidence of Clemens ' possible perjury before Congress.

and gave authorities the ability to share information gathered before a federal grand jury with other agencies.

Article I, Section 2, Clause 5 and Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution both authorize the House of Representatives to serve as a " grand jury " with the power to impeach high federal officials, including the President, for " treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

** A federal grand jury indicts Caspar Weinberger for his role in covering up the Iran – Contra affair.

* July 26 – A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. for releasing a computer virus, making him the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

That is, he did not claim in any of the four courts through which his case progressed that the jury charge had denied him any federal right.

U.S. Attorney Macon Weaver said the federal complaint, charged that the juror gave false information when asked about Ku Klux Klan membership during selection of jury.

" Nathan Dane, the primary author of the Northwest Ordinance, viewed this provision as a default mechanism in the event that federal or territorial statutes were silent about a particular matter ; he wrote that if " a statute makes an offence, and is silent as to the mode of trial, it shall be by jury, according to the course of the common law.

Rajat Gupta, who reached the pinnacle of corporate America as managing partner of McKinsey & Co. and director at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ( GS ) and Procter & Gamble Co. ( PG ), was convicted by a federal jury of leaking inside information to hedge-fund manager Raj Rajaratnam.

In 1989, after a five-week trial which began on August 28 in Charlotte, the jury found him guilty on all 24 counts, and Judge Robert Potter sentenced him to 45 years in federal prison and a $ 500, 000 fine.

* Federal Jury Instruction Resource Page Collecting model or pattern federal civil and criminal jury instructions for trial courts by jurisdiction ( where available ) and subject matter.

Approximately 150, 000 jury trials are conducted in state courts annually, and an additional 5, 000 jury trials are conducted in federal courts.

In the United States, every person accused of a crime punishable by incarceration for more than six months has a constitutional right to a trial by jury, which arises in federal court from Article Three of the United States Constitution, which states in part, " The Trial of all Crimes ... shall be by Jury ; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed.

But those who charged with a criminal offense, breach of contract or federal offence have a Constitutional right to a trial by jury.

The right to trial by jury in a civil case in federal court is addressed by the Seventh Amendment.

The Seventh Amendment does not guarantee or create any right to a jury trial ; rather, it preserves the right to jury trial in the federal courts that existed in 1791 at common law.

There is not a United States constitutional right under the Seventh Amendment to a jury trial in state courts, but in practice, almost every state except Louisiana, which has a civil law legal tradition, permits jury trials in civil cases in state courts on substantially the same basis that they are allowed under the Seventh Amendment in federal court.

This authority was the executive council and lawmaking body of the confederacy, from the Middle Ages until the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848.

In the summer of 1790, McGillivray and 29 other Muscogee chiefs signed the Treaty of New York, on behalf of the ' Upper, Middle and Lower Creek and Seminole composing the Creek nation of Indians ,' ceding a large portion of their lands to the federal government and promising to return fugitive slaves, in return for federal recognition of Muscogee sovereignty and promises to evict white settlers.

In 1984, the matter was forwarded to the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, who opened a federal criminal probe.

The plea agreement provided that it was " limited to the Office of the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida and the Counterterrorism Section of the Department of Justice, and cannot bind other federal, state, or local prosecuting authorities.

For a commonly used example, as defined for federal economic purposes, the Hampton Roads metropolitan statistical area ( MSA ) additionally includes one county in northeastern North Carolina and two counties in Virginia ’ s Middle Peninsula.

The Austrian federal states have however retained pre-republican heraldic traditions ( mostly heraldic images from the Middle Ages, but also diverse accoutrements such as archducal and ducal hats, and knights ' helmets ).

" He is admitted to the Bar in North Carolina and admitted to practice before the Western, Middle and Eastern District federal courts, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.

The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 destroyed much of the railroad and killed hundreds of residents, including around 400 World War I veterans who were living in camps and working on federal road and mosquito control projects in the Middle Keys.

On August 2012, the administrators acceded to rent the Middle / High School building to federal program Proyecto CASA.

This community was almost entirely wiped out when the federal government decided to condemn most of its housing to build Deal Middle School, Wilson High School, a park, and a water tower.

* John E. Jones III ( born 1955 ), US federal judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

He later accepted appointment as a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee and the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.

According to a federal grand jury indictment Stewart along with interpreter Mohamed Yousry, an adjunct professor in Middle East studies at York College CUNY, and postal clerk Ahmed Sattar passed messages between Rahman and his supporters in violation of the SAM, thereby conspiring to defraud the United States in violation of.

As a federal judge, Whittemore presided over a number of high profile cases, including a lawsuit against Major League Baseball to challenge its draft procedure, and the Terri Schiavo case, after the United States Congress had specifically given the Middle District of Florida jurisdiction to hear the seven year-long fight over whether the brain-damaged Schiavo should be taken off life support.

He briefly worked at Bauer, Morlan & Wells, a small law firm in St. Petersburg, Florida, before becoming one of the original four federal public defenders in the Middle District of Florida in 1978.

He was one of the attorneys of record for former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman during Siegelman's federal trial in the U. S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama on charges of bribery, mail fraud, and obstruction of justice.

In the weeks before the 2004 presidential elections a San Francisco-based ADC official wrote about federal law enforcement ’ s " October Plan ," including home intrusions and work site visits on Middle Easterners and South Asians to seek information about a possible pre-election terrorist attack.

Male-male sexual activity was prosecuted under sodomy laws throughout Western Europe from the Middle Ages, and was made a crime nationally under Paragraph 175 in 1871, the year the federal German Empire was formed.

Richman has written occasional pieces on foreign policy, population issues, federal disaster assistance, international trade, education, the environment, American history, privacy, computers, and the Middle East.

Edwin Wright served the U. S. federal government under President Harry S. Truman as General staff G-2 and Middle East specialist, Washington ( 1945 – 46 ); on the Bureau of Near East-South Asian-African Affairs, Department of State ( 1946 onwards ); country specialist ( 1946 – 47 ); advisor U. N. affairs ( 1947 – 50 ); and advisor on intelligence ( 1950 – 55 ).

* Kevin H. Sharp, federal judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Within the Middle District, federal courthouses are located in:

On August 21, 2003, when Moore failed to comply with the August 5, 2003, Order of the District Court, the eight Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of Alabama, issued an order recognizing that " he refusal of officers of this Court to obey a binding order of a federal court of competent jurisdiction would impair the authority and ability of all of the courts of this State to enforce their judgments ," and issued an order countermanding the " administrative decision of the Chief Justice to disregard the writ of injunction of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama " and ordered " that the Building Manager of the Alabama Judicial Building be, and the same hereby is, DIRECTED to take all steps necessary to comply with the injunction as soon as practicable.