A grand jury is a lot like your traditional trial jury.
What does a grand jury room look like.
Through the grand jury laypersons participate in bringing suspects to trial.
Instead a prosecutor will work with a grand jury to decide whether to bring criminal charges or an indictment against a potential defendant usually reserved for serious felonies.
The grand jury plays an important role in the criminal process but not one that involves a finding of guilt or punishment of a party.
Though it holds judicial inquiries the grand jury does not decide guilt or innocence.
Grand jury members may be called for jury duty for months at a time but need.
A grand jury looks like the trial jury you might have pictured in your head from court shows you watch on tv and the qualifications for the jurors on them are the same.
It typically contains a group of 12 to 23 people more than the 6 to 12 used in a regular jury.
Grand jury in anglo american law a group that examines accusations against persons charged with crime and if the evidence warrants makes formal charges on which the accused persons are later tried.