It’s certainly possible that’s the case. I spent a year as the foreman of a criminal grand jury in California and evidence we were considering was confidential until the indictments were signed by me and handed to the judge if we did not decide to seal them until arrests could be made. That would include providing such evidence to anyone at all outside of Law enforcement because Grand Juries are Constitutional creations, not subject to the executive or the legislature or even the Judicial Branch. . . although we’ve allowed ALL three to ignore that distinction.
In fact my Grand Jury was the first criminal Grand jury called in twenty-five years in the entire state of California! The state had gotten off onto the idea of using preliminary hearings to bring indictments, which is unconstitutional on its face, instead of going the Constitutional way of Grand Jury indictments. A Federal Lawsuit required that Grand Juries be reinstated in California, but the wishy-washy Federal District judge made its use optional at the DA’s choice. They’ve returned to that preliminary hearing practice again. Liberals LIKE Judicial power.
Interesting. TPTB have snookered the populace about the Constitutional power of juries ... e.g. even to judge the law as it might apply to a case.
Good points! I served on a Grand Jury for a few months, we heard a lot of cases. Extremely interesting, met once a month at the county court house. It was a real education.