Straight Talk about Constitutional Grand Jury

Straight Talk about Constitutional Grand Jury

The American Grand Jury was designed in a unique and very creative way. Bob Campbell wanted to find a way to impanel a grand jury that was convenient, available free of charge to all citizens, and had maximum impact. He came up with a brilliant plan!

• American Grand Jury is a National on-line Constitutional Grand Jury. These powers are enumerated here The Federal Grand Jury is the 4th Branch of Government and here Mark McGrew nails the Grand Jury Story
• The Constitutional Grand Jury derives its power and authority from the US Constitution.
• Constitutional Grand Jury participants will serve from their computer with no travel or expense.
• All proceedings and presentments of our Constitutional Grand Jury hearings are conducted and handed down confidentially. All Constitutional Grand Jury membership is also confidential. Members are known only to other members serving on their specific Constitutional Grand Jury and AGJ Administration. Such presentments will be forwarded to ANY Court in the Nation that wishes to review the presentments and proceed with prosecution of the Defendant.
What that means is: If any American Grand Jury member wishes to take the presentment(s) to their local, State or Federal jurisdictions and file such presentment(s), then American Grand Jury Administration will provide the paperwork for such member to do just that. American Grand Jury will also empower individual representatives to act on behalf of Grand Jury Members and make presentments to jurisdictions anywhere in the United States. These representatives will be sworn in and subject to a similar oath as the Jury Members. Grand Jury Members or authorized representives of American Grand Jury can make presentments to such authorities as Sheriffs, County, State and Federal Prosecutors.
• From across the nation citizens can collectively examine and discuss the evidence, make a decision whether to indict, and then act with the full power of the U.S. Constitution to present the indictment to local, state and federal authorities.
• As of April 13th we have 75 jurors. We want hundreds! Our goal is to present indictments in every jurisdiction of the union;
3,007 entities named “County”
16 Boroughs in Alaska
11 Census Areas in Alaska (for areas not organized into Boroughs by the State)
64 Parishes in Louisiana
42 Independent Cities (1 in Maryland, 1 in Missouri, 1 in Nevada, and the remainder in Virginia)
1 District - the Federal District or District of Columbia.
For a total of 3,141 chances to bring criminal charges against offending politicians. We only need one judge to order “Discovery” and all the secrets citizens have the right to know will be revealed. We do not need to go to trial. It will all be over when discovery is ordered
• You can become a Constitutional Grand Juror by going to http://americangrandjury.org/

lagniappe

For those who are skeptical of the power of the Grand Jury to operate independent of the prosecutor or indeed target a prosecutor. Take a look at this little tid bit:

Because grand juries are generally composed of ordinary citizens with no special training or experience in the law, they usually follow the lead of the prosecutor assigned to them. The classic complaint of defendants’ attorneys is that grand jurors would indict a ham sandwich if the prosecutor asked them to. But they don’t always do as the prosecutor wishes, as Jeannene Pacific, the district attorney in Jones County, Mississippi, discovered. Ms. Pacific became the target of her own grand jury when it sought to investigate over $35,000 paid by the county’s Worthless Check Unit to Pacific and her staff as “salary supplements.” Alarmed, Pacific asked the local court to forbid the grand jury’s actions. Although the local court did so, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled that the grand jury had the power to investigate:

“The grand jury must be free to pursue its investigations unhindered by external influence or supervision so long as it does not trench on the legitimate rights of any witness called before it. The court generally cannot limit the grand jury, its legitimate investigation, interfere with its investigatory function, control the nature of its investigation, prohibit consideration of offenses within any particular class of crimes, stay its proceedings, dismiss a matter, or do various other things.”

Ms. Pacific and her assistant eventually repaid over $30,000.

Ex Parte Jones County Grand Jury, 705 So. 2d 1308 (Miss. 1997)