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To: EDINVA
My memory is that there were a couple of DAs over the course of this story that went on for years.

Typically a Grand Jury is impaneled for only a specific period. Generally 90 days.

The GJ will then meet only once a week and then only if the Prosecutor has a case for them to review.

Only on rare occasions is a special GJ empanelled for a specific case that will be seated long term.

Judges are reluctant to seat a special GD because it is a great imposition on people’s time and it is difficult for people to remain impartial on such cases today because of all of the news coverage of such a case.

A prosecutor could certainly take the same case to a GJ more than once. If more than one prosecutor worked the case it certainly could have gone before different GJs.

26 posted on 01/28/2013 12:49:59 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac

ok, I have a memory, tho, of a former co-worker who’d been called for jury duty that evolved into being asked to serve on a Grand Jury and she was to serve on it for 18 months which about drove her over the edge.


27 posted on 01/28/2013 1:06:18 PM PST by EDINVA
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