Grand Juries as Representatives of the 4th Branch of Government

Rocinante

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This is the part that concerns me as well.

How was your Jury pool selected?

Also, WTH is a Grand Jury doing handing down awards/penalties?
Usually they are very selective with the grand jury. When I got summoned, they had over 100 people scheduled that day, and only chose a few. Most don't get chosen.

They don't do anything but decide if there's enough evidence to convict. The judge told us if selected we could be looking at 40 cases a day. And that it's from a one sided perspective. Only that of the officers/prosecutors. Since there are no charges yet, you're not looking at any defense statements. Just the evidence that's been collected.

Anyways, they have TONS of reasons to rule someone out. They get you all in a group. Assign you all a number, and ask a bunch of group questions and you'll raise your hand or chime in.

I was excused, for example, because I told them I don't think I could fairly judge drug addicts. I am a sober ex addict and it might effect my judgement.

They go through and screen For stuff like this too, but they also have an open thing at the end where you can just tell them reasons you might not be able to do it. Work hours, new kids, bias against the system, family in jail, family in the police dept, etc. They screen for all that.
 

The Whispering Monk

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@Rocinante it wasn't the local govt. forming the Grand Jury.

"The WNCFreedom2020 group in Asheville, North Carolina, has convened a Grand Jury of the People, according to its founders, pursuant to the 1215 Magna Carta and the North Carolina State Constitution, to question the authority of the Buncombe County Commissioners and Board of Education’s COVID-19 policies."

Thus I'd like to know how they selected their jurors.
 

Rocinante

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@Rocinante it wasn't the local govt. forming the Grand Jury.

"The WNCFreedom2020 group in Asheville, North Carolina, has convened a Grand Jury of the People, according to its founders, pursuant to the 1215 Magna Carta and the North Carolina State Constitution, to question the authority of the Buncombe County Commissioners and Board of Education’s COVID-19 policies."

Thus I'd like to know how they selected their jurors.
I didn't read your original thing and thought you were just asking how grand juries we're selected. So I just shared my experience.

Afraid I don't have anything productive to add aside from that
 

bintananth

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I didn't read your original thing and thought you were just asking how grand juries we're selected. So I just shared my experience.

Afraid I don't have anything productive to add aside from that
I did.

Grand Juries, as your experience demonstrates, are there to say "this is bullshit and there is no case" or "you've got a case, now let's see what the Petit Jury has to say about the defense rebuttal."
 

Emperor Tippy

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The people have a representative in the government; it's called the legislature.

If your elected politicians aren't doing what you want/behaving responsibly then go get a "grand jury" made up of 50%+1 of the voting population and have them vote in someone(s) who will do what you want/behave responsibly.
 

Rocinante

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Which is totally real easy to do, especially in light of not being able to trust elections anymore and all... :rolleyes:
The 50%+1 isn't even true in our system even if the voting was trustworthy.

It's more about districts and electoral votes.

You can win an election with a Minority of votes. It's typically been republicans who have pulled this off recently.
 

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