Pretrial Proceedings, the Grand Jury, and Venue

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• State Appeals Courts and Grand Jury

  The Judiciary: Pretrial, Bail, Plea Bargaining, and Trial Explain what a grand jury is to your classmates. How does a grand jury work and who is involved in the process?

• Hearsay exceptions

  The use of hearsay in a grand jury differs from that of state courts is that Hearsay evidence is admissible in grand jury proceedings. (See: United States V. Estepa).

• federal criminal pretrial process

  They decide if there is probable cause for believing that the accused committed the crime he is being charged with. If the judge or the grand jury feels there is probable cause to support the charges, the indictment is approved.

• Al Jones

  The venue would also be determined by the dollar value of the suit. In case of litigation, the pretrial process would have five phases namely, pleadings, discovery, dismissals, pretrial judgments and settlement conferences.

• Importance of Branzburg v. Hayes, Confidentiality

  Hayes decision based on whether the cases involved civil, criminal, or grand jury proceedings?

• Stages of a Criminal Trial

  The grand jury calls their own witnesses and may request further investigations. The grand jury will then decide whether sufficient evidence has been presented to indict the defendant.

• Exclusionary Rules and Investigations

  The evidence would have been discovered anyways without the tainted evidence. The rule does not apply to evidence presented in grand jury proceedings.

• Effectiveness of Drug Testing in the pretrial program

  venue that provides factual data of "the defendants drug use at the time of arrest.

• Grand Jury Subpoena

  The grand jury is investigating a major case of corporate fraud.The grand jury issues a subpoena duces tecum that requires the production of "all original documents that constitute understandings, contracts, correspondence, letters, memoranda, accounting