No, a random group of discontented citizens can’t declare itself a grand jury. Good grief. [Bozeman Daily Chronicle; compare frivolous “sovereign citizen” claims] More: Greenfield.
No, a random group of discontented citizens can’t declare itself a grand jury. Good grief. [Bozeman Daily Chronicle; compare frivolous “sovereign citizen” claims] More: Greenfield.
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Isn’t that called a posse?
I think even a posse is organized by the sherriff…I may need to Google that! All this time I could have been organizing a posse…FML.
Isn’t this called “stupid”?
Walter, Dan, HFB, Doug, and I now think this is a bad idea. As soon as another 11 agree we’ll be able to form our own grand jury to indict the discontented citizens.
We’d better hurry before the discontented citizens finish their grand jury and indict us!
Actually, in Virginia, they can.
Not sure what the last commenter is getting at. Checking several sources on Virginia practice, I find all of them describe Virginia grand juries as summoned by courts, rather than being somehow self-summoning.
Actually this is happening all around the country right now, and it’s not all sponsored by this National Liberty Alliance group.
Here is a bird’s eye view.
http://www.lincolncountywatch.org/grandjury/
http://triblive.com/neighborhoods/yourpennhills/yourpennhillsmore/4616115-74/grand-common-jury#axzz2qOqOSl3h
http://triblive.com/news/westmoreland/5031867-74/grand-jury-law#axzz2qOqOSl3h
http://commonlawgrandjury.com/
http://www.1215.org/lawnotes/lawnotes/grandjuryrules.htm
http://commonlawgrandjury.com/Misc/united%20States%20Constitution_circa%201787.pdf
http://grandjury-snohomish.weebly.com/
http://dumpdc.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/the-common-law-grand-jury-secessions-nuclear-weapon/
http://www.constitution.org/lrev/roots/runaway.htm
Boy, Paul. that is just the stupidest thing I have read all week. I am gonna convene a grand jury against you if you convene one against me or someone I like.