Special Grand Jury to Investigate Donald Trump & Co: Here's a Detailed Grand Jury Explainer

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🗓️ 27 May 2021

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A grand jury differs in every respect form a trial jury. Here is a detailed explainer of how grand juries operate and what it means that Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance has impaneled a special grand jury to sit for six months to investigate Donald Trump and the Trump Organization. For our newly launched Team Justice and Justice Matters merchandise shop, please visit: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/glennkirschner/ Please consider becoming a #TeamJustice patron at: https://www.patreon.com/glennkirschner My podcast, "Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner" can be downloaded where you get your podcasts. Follow me on: Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/glennkirschner2 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/glennkirschner2 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glennkirschner2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	So Manhattan District Attorney Sy Vance has empaneled a special grand jury to
0:06.7	investigate Donald Trump and the Trump organization. What does that really mean?
0:12.9	And how does a grand jury go about doing its business deciding whether to
0:19.0	indict somebody for criminal charges or not? Let's talk about that because
0:25.4	understanding the way a grand jury operates. Like justice matters.
0:45.9	Hey all, Glenn Kershner here. Well, I'm sure you've seen the reports by now.
0:51.0	Here's one example ahead line from the New York Daily News. Manhattan District
0:56.2	Attorney Sy Vance Jr. convenes grand jury to weigh criminal charges against
1:01.8	Trump and his business executives. And of course in the Trump organization his
1:08.0	business executives are largely his family members. So what does it actually
1:14.5	mean that district attorney Vance has empaneled a special grand jury to
1:19.8	investigate Donald Trump and the Trump organization? Well, first of all, it does
1:25.0	not guarantee that Trump or the Trump organization will be indicted. But this
1:31.9	is the last stop on the road to a criminal indictment. I've been getting a
1:38.6	lot of questions about you know what the grand jury is. How does it operate?
1:42.9	What does it take to return an indictment for the grand jury to criminally
1:47.1	charge somebody? So let's try to go through some of these frequently asked
1:51.1	questions to understand how grand juries operate. So first of all, the grand jury
1:57.2	is an arm of the court. It's not an arm of the prosecutor's office. The chief
2:02.2	judge of the jurisdiction in which the grand jury sits sends out grand jury
2:08.0	notices. Summins grand jurors citizens to come and sit for a period of time on a
2:14.1	grand jury. Each grand jury consists of 23 people. Why 23? I don't know. Perhaps
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