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Grand jury

The court consisted of three judges from the High Court of Justiciary (Scotland's highest criminal court), of whom Tinwald (Justice Clerk) was elected preses (presiding member).


Angela Coleman

Angela Coleman (born 1963 in Chicago, Illinois), daughter of New Orleans Fourth Municipal District Assessor Betty Jefferson, was one of four individuals indicted in 2009 by federal grand jury for the U.S. Justice Department's Eastern District of Louisiana.

Carl C. Rasmussen

Rasmussen's predecessor, Howard W. Davis, had been the representative in the 7th almost continuously since 1927, but in February 1939, a grand jury, at the instigation of District Attorney Buron Fitts, voted 38 charges of misconduct against him.

Chappaquiddick incident

On April 6, 1970, Dukes County grand jury assembled in special session to consider Kopechne's death.

Crow Dog

A grand jury was convened and he was tried and convicted in Dakota Territorial court in Deadwood, South Dakota, and sentenced to death which was to be carried out on January 14, 1884.

Florida Taj Mahal scandal

Ray Sansom along with Bob Richburg, former president of Northwest Florida State College, and Jay Odom, a Destin businessman and a major Republican contributor were indicted by a grand jury in April 2009.

Gainesville Eight

After learning from FBI informants and agents within the VVAW about possible plans for disruption and violence, the Department of Justice initiated a grand jury investigation.

José E. Benedicto

Shortly after Emmet Montgomery Reily was appointed as Governor, Benedicto was indicted by a Grand Jury on corruption charges and was removed as Treasurer by the Governor in 1921.

Mike Kernell

In October 2008, Kernell's son David was indicted by a Tennessee grand jury in connection with the unauthorized access of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo! Mail account.

Orange County Government Center

Mold had been growing in spaces in some rooms, including the grand jury room, and there were concerns it might become unsafe for use by those with respiratory problems.

Robert E. Guglielmone

In 2003, after a grand jury report on the handling of sexual abuse cases in the Diocese of Rockville Centre sparked public outrage, Bishop William Murphy named Guglielmone to be the diocesan Director of Clergy Personnel.

Shoup Voting Machine Corporation

In 1972, C. H. "Sammy" Downs, a former Louisiana state senator serving as his state's public works director in the admininistration of Governor John McKeithen, resigned when he was indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery in connection with procuring state business for the Shoup company.


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2010 Sundance Film Festival

Winter's Bone, which won the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, was nominated for 4 Oscars: Best Picture, Jennifer Lawrence for Best Actress, John Hawkes as Best Supporting Actor, and Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Alexander Yellen

Quinceañera won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.

Bahamas International Film Festival

Submissions to this genre are eligible to win the Grand Jury prize sponsored by Chopard.

BALCO scandal

The former American League MVP and current player for the Cleveland Indians allegedly admitted to steroid use as well as HGH use in front of a grand jury in December 2003.

Big River Man

The film was nominated for the grand Jury Prize at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and won the Excellence in Cinematography Award (Maringouin also shot the film).

Catalina Vasquez Villalpando

In May 1992, Villalpando was ordered to testify before a grand jury as well as produce certain documents related to that case involving HUD official Deborah Gore Dean.

Charles Fickert

A 1919 grand jury exonerated Fickert from charges made by John B. Densmore, investigator from Washington, Director General of Employment, in the framing of Mooney and Billings and for his having conspired with Pete McDonough in the freeing of wealthy defendants.

Charles R. Forbes

On December 16, 1927, after the publication of his New York World article, Forbes testified before a grand jury in Kansas City that concerned his statement in the article that alleged narcotics was easily obtained at USP Leavenworth.

Clemence B. Horrall

Clemence B. Horrall (September 24, 1895 – October 4, 1960) was Los Angeles Police Department Chief of Police from June 16, 1941, when he succeeded Arthur C. Hohmann to serve as the 41st Chief of the L.A.P.D., to June 28, 1949, when he resigned under pressure during a grand jury investigation of police corruption.

Contention City, Arizona

In the wake of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Ike Clanton attempted to have Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday tried in Contention City after a grand jury refused to indict them in Tombstone in the wake of the Spicer Hearing.

Daniel Woodrell

The more recent Winter's Bone (2006) was adapted by writer and director Debra Granik for a film of the same title, released commercially in June 2010 after winning two awards at the Sundance Film Festival, including the Grand Jury Prize for a dramatic film.

David Newsom

In April 2006, "Mother" won the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short at the Florida Film Festival, a victory which automatically qualified the film for a potential Academy Award nomination.

Ed Packard

On March 14, 2007, the Associated Press reported that a Montgomery County, Alabama, grand jury issued an indictment against Worley that included five felony counts and five misdemeanor counts related to Worley's solicitation of campaign contributions from Secretary of State employees.

Edison Uno

Uno was active in grand jury reform, as well as in such civil rights issues as the Wendy Yoshimura Defense Fund, Title II Repeal, Redress for Evacuation, and the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and worked on Farewell to Manzanar television program.

Francis Forcer the Younger

It was not until after Forcer's death, when John Warren was occupier in 1744, that the grand jury of Middlesex thought it necessary to protest against the demoralizing influence of this and similar places of amusement.

Gerald Stano

In 1995, Crow was removed from office by a grand jury appointed by Florida Governor Lawton Chiles, citing corruption.

Girlfight

The film won the Director's Award the Grand Jury Prize (tied with Kenneth Lonergan's You Can Count on Me) at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

Gladys Root

In July 1964 an indictment was issued against Gladys by the Federal Grand Jury in connection with her actions during her defense of one of the defendants in the kidnapping case of Frank Sinatra, Jr., the teenage son of Frank Sinatra.

Grand juries in the United States

Scott Turow's second novel The Burden of Proof deals extensively with the workings and shortcomings of the Federal Grand Jury system in a fictional midwestern state.

Habis Abdulla al Saoub

On Thursday, October 3, 2002, a federal grand jury in United States District Court for the District of Oregon, at Portland, Oregon, indicted Battle, Ford, the two Bilals, al Saoub and Lewis.

Investigations and prosecutions relating to the Mountain Meadows massacre

A federal judge brought into the territory after the Utah War, Judge John Cradlebaugh, in March 1859 convened a grand jury in Provo, Utah concerning the massacre, but the jury declined any indictments.

Jimmy Smallhorne

The drama about a closeted gay construction worker in New York City was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival and received the Festival's Cinematography award for the camera work of Declan Quinn (Leaving Las Vegas, Vanya on 42nd Street, Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love).

Joan Orie Melvin

On April 7, 2010, two of Melvin's sisters, Pennsylvania state senator Jane Orie and Janine Orie, were arrested and charged with theft of services and criminal conspiracy following a Pittsburgh grand jury investigation.

Joseph Vas

On March 11, 2009, New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram announced that a grand jury had indicted Vas on eleven counts, including conspiracy, official misconduct, bid-rigging and tampering with records.

Kishon Khan

In 2009, his score for Sadik Ahmed’s film, The Last Thakur, won a Grand Jury award for Best Music at the South Asian International Film Festival in New York.

Laura Pendergest-Holt

On May 12, 2009, Pendergest-Holt was indicted by a Houston federal grand jury on two counts of obstructing a fraud investigation and conspiracy to obstruct justice.

Le Grand Jury

In 1987, interviewed in Le Grand Jury, the National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen said "the holocaust is a detail of the history of the Second World War".

Libby Zion Law

After the grand jury's indictment of the two residents, the New York State Health Commissioner David Axelrod decided to address the systemic problems in residency by establishing a blue-ribbon panel of experts headed by Bertrand M. Bell, a primary care physician at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx.

Living on Tokyo Time

The film received a nomination for a Grand Jury Prize at the 1987 Sundance Film Festival.

Michael Rispoli

In 2011, the feature film Union Square, co-written and directed by the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Award Winner, Nancy Savoca, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.

Patrick Stettner

He went on to direct and write the screenplay for The Business of Strangers in 2001, which earned him a Grand Jury Prize nomination at the Sundance Film Festival of that year and earned lead actress Stockard Channing an AFI nomination for Best Female Actress.

Pete McDonough

A 1919 Grand Jury exonerated San Francisco District Attorney Charles Fickert from charges made by John B. Densmore, investigator from Washington, Director General of Employment, in the framing of Thomas Mooney and Warren Billings and for Fickert having conspired with McDonough in the freeing of wealthy defendants.

Public Access

When Public Access screened at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival, it was one of the two films to win the Grand Jury Prize in dramatic competition, sharing the award with Ruby in Paradise.

Richard Berkowitz

Berkowitz is the subject of the 2008 documentary Sex Positive directed by Daryl Wein and winner of the 2008 Outfest Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary.

Roberta Hanley

She directed the 1998 movie Brand New World for which she was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature Film at the 2001 New York International Independent Film & Video Festival.

Rocco DiSiglio

In August 1967, after H. Paul Rico testified before a Suffolk county grand jury about his conversations with Joseph Barboza concerning the murder of DiSiglio, the Boston SAC sent an urgent teletype to J. Edgar Hoover at 1:03 a.m.

Ruby in Paradise

Together with Public Access it won the 1993 Grand Jury Prize for Drama at the Sundance Film Festival.

Seymour Peck

In Dec. 1956 Peck was indicted, along with Robert Shelton, William A. Price, and Alden Whitman, for contempt of Congress by a Washington grand jury.

Shire Hall, Monmouth

The Grand Jury included Lord Granville Somerset, brother of the Duke of Beaufort; John Etherington Welch Rolls; Octavius Morgan; and four Members of Parliament, Joseph Bailey, William Addams Williams, Reginald James Blewitt, and Sir Benjamin Hall.

Shoup Voting Machine Corporation

In July 1971, United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell announced that the Shoup Voting Machine Corp. of Philadelphia, its subsidiary Southern Municipal Sales, Inc., Shoup president Irving H. Myers, company executive vice president Martin V. Schott, several other Shoup employees, and other individuals had been indicted by a Philadelphia grand jury for a total of four indictments for bribery, mail fraud, and conspiracy.

Silverlake Life: The View from Here

It shared the 1993 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival with the film Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family.

State v. Reid

Though the defendant and amici curiae, the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey (ACDL) and the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey (ACLU), argued that notice of the subpoena must also be given to the subscriber, the court again deferred to McAllister, where it ruled that notice is not constitutionally required in order for law enforcement to obtain bank records through a grand jury subpoena.

Susan Ralston

On July 29, 2005, Ralston testified before federal grand jury prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald, investigating whether government officials illegally disclosed the identity of CIA officer Valerie Wilson.

Tawana Brawley rape allegations

Under the authority of New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams, a grand jury was called to hear evidence.

On October 6, 1988, the Abrams Grand Jury released its 170-page report concluding Brawley had not been abducted, assaulted, raped and sodomized, as had been claimed by Brawley and her advisers.

The Snell Show

After winning the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Slamdance Film Festival, The Snell Show went on to play many festivals across the nation, including the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival, Maryland Film Festival, AFI Film Festival, and Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival.

Timothy Curley

During the grand jury investigation, Curley had testified as to his awareness of a 2002 incident that allegedly occurred in the Penn State football locker room, in which assistant coach Mike McQueary testified he witnessed Sandusky raping a 10-year-old boy.

William Bebb


Some months afterward, when he was in the city of Cincinnati on business, he learned through the newspapers that the Grand Jury of Winnebago County had indicted him for manslaughter.

Yarone Zober

In 2013, he testified to a grand jury after he was "subpoenaed to testify as a fact witness" about the activities of Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl.