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A grand jury was convened and summoned Hill to explain: 1 ) why he had been so solicitous about the Islands for War Debts Committee's mail ; and 2 ) his close association with George Sylvester Viereck, a Nazi propaganda agent.
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Rumors of the offer Tom Horn had made at the Stockgrowers' Association meeting had leaked out by then, and as a grand jury investigation of the murder got underway, the prosecuting attorney, a Colonel Baird, ordered that the tall stock detective be summoned for questioning.
Gorton reverted to his Plymouth tactics, refused to let her go, and appeared himself before the Portsmouth grand jury.
The grand jury commented on a number of other topics, among them the Atlanta and Fulton County purchasing departments which it said `` are well operated and follow generally accepted practices which inure to the best interest of both governments ''.
The grand jury took a swipe at the State Welfare Department's handling of federal funds granted for child welfare services in foster homes.
The jury said it found the court `` has incorporated into its operating procedures the recommendations '' of two previous grand juries, the Atlanta Bar Association and an interim citizens committee.
Wexler admitted in earlier court hearings that he issued grand jury subpenas to about 200 persons involved in the election investigation, questioned the individuals in the Criminal courts building, but did not take them before the grand jury.
Karns said it was a `` wrongful act '' for Wexler to take statements `` privately and outside of the grand jury room ''.
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.
During grand jury testimony in December 2003 – which was illegally leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle and published in December 2004 – Giambi allegedly admitted to using many different steroids, including fertility drugs ( which could account for his declining health in the past few years ).
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.
A grand jury is a type of jury that determines whether a criminal indictment will be issued.
A grand jury is so named because it has a greater number of jurors than a trial jury ( also known as a petit jury, from the French for small ).
The Australian state of Victoria maintained, until 2009, provisions for a grand jury in the Crimes Act 1958 under section 354 Indictments, which had been used on rare occasions by individuals to bring other persons to court seeking them to be committed for trial on indictable offences.
Grand juries were once common across Canada and old courthouses with the two jury boxes necessary to accommodate the 24 jurors of a grand jury can still be seen.
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And of course the Soviet threat was responsible for NATO, the grand alliance of the Atlantic nations.
Then epistolatory me was a foreign correspondent dispatching exciting cables and communiques, full of dash and wit and glamor, quoting from the books I read, imitating the grand styles of the authors recommended by a teacher in whose special, after-school class I was enrolled.
In the grand court of the Palace, notable for its tiers of Moorish galleries that looked down on the maelstrom of vehicles below, Vernon's station was at the entrance.
This time, it was so grand ; ;
She played with style and a touch of the grand manner, and every piece she performed was especially effective in its closing measures.
Then Rudy Bond was simply grand as Ben, the distraught Republican Party district chieftain.
He thought that the image of " Apollo riding his chariot across the Sun was appropriate to the grand scale of the proposed program.
Ahmed II's best known act was to confirm Mustafa Köprülü as grand vizier.
The whole matter was solemnly submitted to a grand council of prelates, senators, ministers and other dignitaries on 13 June 1718.
The Amiga brand was then sold to another PC manufacturer, Gateway 2000, which had announced grand plans for it.
On his return to Nuremberg, Dürer worked on a number of grand projects with religious themes, including a crucifixion scene and a Sacra Conversazione, though neither was completed.
In 1962, Giacometti was awarded the grand prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale, and the award brought with it worldwide fame.
The Swedenborgian church was so grand that it was considered to be the ‘ Cathedral ’ of that denomination.
In October 1747 a loya jirga ( grand council ) concluded near the city of Kandahar with Ahmad Shah Durrani being selected as the new leader of the Afghans, thus the Durrani dynasty was founded.
His importance is proven once more by the grand funeral given to him by his people: his funeral at sea with many weapons and treasures shows he was a great soldier and an even greater leader to his people.
Ottoman authority in Anatolia was indeed seriously threatened during this period, and at one point Bayezid II's grand vizier, Ali Pasha, was killed in battle against rebels.
grand and convened
A related concept is the jury, which can be regarded as a specialized form of militia convened to render a verdict in a court proceeding ( known as a petit jury or trial jury ) or to investigate a public matter and render a presentment or indictment ( grand jury ).
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.
In criminal law in United States, in federal courts and in a minority of state court systems, a grand jury is convened to hear only testimony and evidence to determine whether there is a case to be answered and hence whether the accused should be indicted and sent for trial.
After a grand jury was convened to investigate, 11 officials were indicted and more were forced to resign.
The structure of the Transitional Authority was announced on June 10, 2002, when an emergency loya jirga ( grand assembly ) convened establishing the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan ( TISA ), which had 18 months to hold a constitutional loya jirga to adopt a constitution and 24 months to hold nationwide elections.
When the Kaufman County grand jury convened, it declined to indict her, and she was released.
Morgenthau convened a grand jury to determine whether Clifford and his partner, Robert A. Altman, had deliberately misled federal regulators when the two men assured them that BCCI would have no outside control.
In September 1920 a grand jury was convened to investigate the allegations.
In August 1950, a federal grand jury was convened to hear the Justice Department's case for indictments.
Under this system, unless people were caught in the act of committing crimes, they could not be tried for them until they had been formally accused, either by the voluntary accusations of a sufficient number of witnesses or by an inquest ( an early form of grand jury ) convened specifically for that purpose.
In May, the Court convened in Ipswich, Essex County, held a variety of grand juries who dismissed charges against all but five people.
A meeting of the elders of the royal family and the ulema was convened later that year, and a second fatwa was decreed by the grand mufti, calling on King Saud to abdicate the throne in favor of his brother.
Meanwhile, New York prosecutor Joseph Stone convened a grand jury to investigate the charges.
At last, in September 1920, a grand jury was convened to investigate.
A grand jury was convened, and Crow Dog was tried and convicted in Dakota Territorial court in Deadwood, South Dakota, and sentenced to death.
In lower Manhattan, the grand jury was convened for nine months and heard testimony from over 150 contestants.
In February 1923, the all-white grand jury convened in Bronson.
A civil grand jury convened to find out who ordered the attack, but it ended inconclusively with a settlement covering personal injury claims and damages.
The grand jury convened in March and returned an indictment against Beauchamp for Sharp's murder.
As a result of the complaint, a grand jury was convened on August 12, 1974.
Following the arrests, a grand jury convened to consider charging Walmart executives with labor racketeering crimes for knowingly allowing undocumented immigrants to work at their stores.
" Investigating what became known as the Franklin child prostitution ring allegations, a Nebraska grand jury was convened to investigate the allegations and possibly return indictments.
Attorney General John Ashcroft referred the matter to the U. S. Department of Justice Office of Special Counsel, directed by Patrick Fitzgerald, who convened a grand jury.
The grand prince and metropolitan convened a church council, headed by Joseph's brother, the bishop of Rostov, which deposed Serapion and confined him to the Troitse-Sergeev Lavra, where he died in 1516.
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