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Silencing Grand Jury Witnesses, R. Michael Cassidy
Silencing Grand Jury Witnesses, R. Michael Cassidy
Indiana Law Journal
This Article addresses one crucial aspect of the ongoing debate about grand jury transparency. Assuming that well over half the states and the federal government continue to employ the grand jury to investigate felony offenses, and assuming that these proceedings continue to be shielded from public view, should witnesses themselves be allowed to discuss their testimony with the press or with each other? This larger question raises two narrow but very important subsidiary issues. First, does a prosecutor who conditions a written proffer or cooperation agreement with a grand jury witness on the witness’s promise not to inform other targets, …
Bioethics And Law: Between Values And Rules, Cinzia Piciocchi
Bioethics And Law: Between Values And Rules, Cinzia Piciocchi
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Back to Government?: The Pluralistic Deficit in the Decisionmaking Processes and Before the Courts, Symposium. University of Trento, Italy, June 11-12, 2004.