Format
Book Chapter
Book Title
Grand jury 2.0: modern perspectives on the grand jury
Editor
Roger Anthony Fairfax Jr.
First Page
253
Last Page
292
Files
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Description
Grand Jury 2.0: Modern Perspectives on the Grand Jury challenges the American legal culture to re-imagine the grand jury and proposes ways to adapt the grand jury's proud heritage to the needs and realities of modern criminal justice. Chapters provide a rare peek into the black box of grand juror deliberations, reflect on empirical evidence related to the grand jury's often overlooked role in charging and plea bargaining practices, and explore what state grand juries tell us about the institution's potential. Other chapters re-examine the grand jury's seemingly settled historical narrative, emphasize the role the grand jury can perform in empowering and giving voice to citizens and local communities, consider whether the grand jury has a discretionary role to play in the initiation of criminal proceedings, highlight the ways in which grand juries have been employed in the War on Terror, and suggest how the grand jury can add value beyond performing its traditional roles both inside and outside the criminal justice system. Fairfax brings together essays written by leading legal scholars and jurists to re-examine the role of the American grand jury, one of the oldest protections known to the American constitutional order. The book's synthesis of criminal law and procedure theory and analysis along with concrete policy proposals makes it required reading for any scholar, student, jurist or lawyer interested in the past, present, or future of the American grand jury.
ISBN
9781594607028
Publication Date
11-2010
City
Durham, NC
Publisher
Carolina Academic Press
Disciplines
Law
Recommended Citation
Washburn, Kevin. "Grand Juries and Expertise in the Administrative State." Grand jury 2.0: modern perspectives on the grand jury (2010): 253-292. https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law_facbookdisplay/68
