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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.

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Melbourne, which defeated Essendon by just 5 points in the preliminary final, later went on to trounce Richmond by 39 points in the grand final.
In 1946, Essendon were clearly the VFL's supreme force, topping the ladder after the roster games and surviving a drawn second semi final against Collingwood to win through to the grand final a week later with a 10. 16 ( 76 ) to 8. 9 ( 57 ).
As if to prove that lightning does occasionally strike twice, the second of the ' ones that got away ' came just a year later, the Dons finishing with a lamentable 7. 27 ( of which full forward Bill Brittingham contributed 2. 12 ) to tie with Melbourne ( who managed 10. 9 ) in the 1948 grand final.
A year later Essendon were if anything even more dominant, defeating the North Melbourne Football Club in both the second semi final and the grand final to secure consecutive VFL premierships for the third time.
His mother was a tribeswoman, a relative of the later grand vizier Melek Ahmed Pasha.
Lee later quipped to the newsmedia that " he had hit a walk-off grand slam and he got second billing ", considering Biggio's achievement.
* 1891 – The Music Hall in New York City ( later known as Carnegie Hall ) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
Apparently not the least embarrassed by this turnabout, the Medici later came back to Michelangelo with another grand proposal, this time for a family funerary chapel in the Basilica of San Lorenzo.
Babcock later worked for the Chickering & Mackays firm who patented the first full iron frame for grand pianos in 1843.
It was the turning point in Sydney's season, as they would earn some revenge of its own in a controversial preliminary final later that year, winning by 31 points and denying the Saints a place in the grand final.
By chance, both spacecraft flew over cratered regions and missed both the giant northern volcanoes and the equatorial grand canyon discovered later.
The acclaimed television drama was honored a decade later when the kinescope of the production was selected for showing at the Museum of Modern Art on February 17 – 20, 1963, as part of Television USA: Thirteen Seasons, described by MoMA Film Library curator Richard Griffith as " a grand retrospective of the best that has been done in American television.
A grand jury does not require a suspect be notified of the proceedings, and grand juries can be used for filing charges in the form of a sealed indictment against unaware suspects to be arrested later by a surprise police visit.
In that book, the Wizard puts on a grand appearance but is later revealed to be merely a man hiding behind a curtain.
Two days later, the same grand jury indicted Ed Reinecke, the Republican lieutenant governor of California, on three charges of perjury before the Senate committee.
In the 1920s the grand building fell in disrepair and later burned to the ground.
Although Wakeman is a noted player of the grand piano, electric piano, Hammond organ, Minimoog and many later models of synthesiser, he is well known as a proponent ( for a time ) of the Mellotron – an analogue electronic musical instrument that uses a bank of pre-recorded magnetic tape strips, each of which is activated by a separate key on its keyboard and lasts approximately 8 seconds.
A week later, after studying the transcripts, the paper's editorial board observed that " the high dedication to grand principles that Americans have a right to expect from a President is missing from the transcript record.
Katoomba and nearby Medlow Bath were first developed as tourist destinations towards the end of the 19th century when a series of grand hotels, notably the Carrington and the Belgravia ( later the Hydro Majestic ) were built and then repeatedly extended.
Spicer invited the grand jury to confirm his findings, and two weeks later, it agreed with his ruling and also refused to indict the men.
The proper term of grand duke was a later invention, probably originating in Western Europe, to denote a particularly mighty duke, as the title duke had through the course of the Middle Ages been deflated to belong to rulers of relatively small fiefs ( such as a city state or a district ), instead of the big provinces it once was attached to.
Another example was the semi-official use of grand duke meaning the later Dukes of Burgundy, i. e., in the 15th century, when they ruled a portion of eastern France as well as most of the Netherlands.
However, grand princes were not as elevated sovereign as later Western European kings, and thus they are treated lower than kings, particularly in later literature.

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