Pa. AG Kane has not reauthorized grand jury that investigated her (PA's Hillary)

--SNIP-- Kane's office declined to comment. Lanny Davis, her outside lawyer and spokesman, later said that she signed and sent paperwork to Saylor for a Norristown grand jury. The Norristown grand jury recommended criminally charging Kane with perjury, obstruction of justice, official oppression and criminal contempt for allegedly leaking grand jury information to a Philadelphia newspaper. The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to nullify the grand jury's report. Its evidence remains sealed.

The article reads "The attorney general must petition the state Supreme Court's chief justice to convene or extend a grand jury..."

The Law reads

PART B(2). Statewide Or Regional Investigating Grand Juries

Rule 240. Applicability of Investigating Grand Jury Rules.

The procedure governing investigating grand juries as set forth in Part B(1) (Investigating Grand Juries) of this Chapter, shall, with the exception of Rule 220 (Motion and Order For Investigating Grand Jury) and Rule 221 (Summoning Investigating Grand Jurors), be applicable to multi-county investigating grand juries.

Comment

The Investigating Grand Jury Act, 42 Pa.C.S. § § 4541—4553, establishes the authority for ‘‘multi-county’’ (that is, both statewide and regional) grand juries.

http://www.pacode.com/secure/data/234/chapter2/s240.html

4544. Convening multicounty investigating grand jury.

(a) General rule.--Application for a multicounty investigating grand jury may be made by the Attorney General to the Supreme Court. In such application the Attorney General shall state that,

http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/CT/HTM/42/00.045..HTM

under § 4543. Convening county investigating grand jury. (a) General rule.--In addition to such other grand juries as are called from time to time, county investigating grand juries shall be summoned as provided in subsection (b). (b) On the initiative of attorney for Commonwealth.--Application may be made to the president judge of the appropriate court of common pleas by the attorney for the Commonwealth for an order directing that a county investigating grand jury be summoned, stating in such application that the convening of a county investigating grand jury is necessary because of the existence of criminal activity within the county which can best be fully investigated using the investigative resources of the grand jury. Within ten days of receipt of such application, the president judge shall issue an order granting the request. The order shall specify which judge is to be the supervising judge of the county investigating grand jury. Refusal to grant an application under this subsection shall be appealable to the Supreme Court in the manner prescribed by general rule. (c) On the initiative of the court.--In the absence of an order under subsection (b), the president judge of the court of common pleas upon his own motion may issue an order directing that a county investigating grand jury be summoned, except that the summoning of such grand jury may, in the discretion of the court, be stayed if the district attorney of the county and the Attorney General both certify to the court that, in their judgments, the summoning of such grand jury is not necessary at such time.

So, since the target of the Grand Jury was the State Attorney General, I would ask the Court to issue an order directing that a multicounty investigating grand jury be summoned.

If that does not work, then I would ask a Judge in each County to Convene a county investigating grand jury to investigate the Attorney General.

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