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New York Correspondent Barry Kalb covered the latest indictment of the subway gunman and talked to defense lawyers to turn up new details about Goetz's personality and past. Kalb also drew on his experience covering Watergate to report on how grand juries work. His New York colleague, Correspondent Kenneth...
On Jan. 25 a Manhattan grand jury decided that he had been justified in his use of force, and declined to indict him on any charges but illegal possession of weapons. District Attorney Robert Morgenthau was criticized for a lack of vigor in pressing for a homicide indictment and for...
The Fifth Amendment requires a grand jury indictment before someone can be prosecuted for a major federal offense, and 19 states have similar rules for felonies. A grand jury, called by the prosecutor and made up of up to 23 randomly selected citizens, decides by a majority vote whether a...
Today, 31 states allow charges to be brought without an indictment by a grand jury; instead, a defendant may be charged either by a prosecutor's written statement or after a preliminary hearing before a judge. (Though a state may choose to call a grand jury, the U.S. Supreme Court...
Merola claims that he gained significant evidence against Donovan and the other defendants from a 1979 FBI wiretap on the telephone at Masselli's Bronx meat-packing warehouse. In 1981, after Donovan had faced confirmation by the Senate as Labor Secretary, the FBI advised the lawmakers about his alleged organized...