Criminal
Mar. 13, 2015
Grand jury system isn't perfect, but can be useful
Is the current system perfect? Absolutely not. Would a system that required prosecutors to make the charging decision in every case be better? Not in my opinion. By Floyd Feeney
Should California change its law and order its district attorneys to make all charging decisions in criminal cases themselves - forbidding any reliance on grand juries composed of citizens from the local community? Should California go further and simply abolish the grand jury?
In 1791, when the 13 original states adopted a Bill of Rights to go along with the country's new Constitution, they insisted that all death penalty and other ...
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