[BP2]

Does a Grand Jury need to be recognized by all 50 states (making it a "federal grand jury"), or does it have powers with just the Georgia group? I don't have a handle on that part yet...

http://www.uscourts.gov/jury/grandhandbook2007.pdf

The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States provides in part that “(n)o person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury . . . .” Moreover, the grand jury system is also recognized in the constitutions of many of the states of the Union

[knarf]

Interesting thread .... but ... who can convene a grand jury?

I thought a court, based on a police report, witnesses etc., had the 'right' ?

Are we to understand any group of citizens can form a grand jury?