A fringe website featured the purported names and addresses of the Fulton County grand jury that indicted Trump and 18 others for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

    • @surewhynotlem
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      701 year ago

      It prevents loading the jury to get a specific outcome. That said, it should come with protection or a delay or something.

      • @BrianTheeBiscuiteer
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        271 year ago

        Not saying it is, but showing me, a regular citizen, these names convinces me the jury wasn’t loaded? Does the defendant have no role in Grand jury selection?

        • @[email protected]
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          391 year ago

          No, the defendant doesn’t. This isn’t a trial jury, it’s the Fulton County Grand Jury. The GJ sits for an extended period (maybe a month, someone step in and correct me if I’m wrong) and listens to cases brought by the prosecutor. The GJ job is to decide if the prosecutor has enough of a case to indict. It seems in this case, she did.

          • @somethingsnappy
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            201 year ago

            Just to clarify, the sitting grand jury does not then sit on the jury for the trial.

          • vortic
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            1 year ago

            That’s generally right. In Fulton County they sit for two months. There were two different grand jurys here, though.

            There was a Special Grand Jury who met for 8 months and investigated the specific crimes related to the Trump case. They issued a report in January detailing all of the evidence that they heard.

            In GA, though, a Special Grand Jury can’t issue an indictment. The report was passed to a normal grand jury who heard all of the evidence, then issued the indictment. That grand jury was first seated on July 11th.

            source

    • athos77
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      251 year ago

      I didn’t know that. I wish they had a process for applying to redact, for cases like this :(

      • peopleproblems
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        1 year ago

        Pretty sure grand Jurors are professionals in most if not all common law states.

        A couple of the peoples titles on the list pointed me towards that they are.

        Edit: I’m pretty certain I’m wrong. There’s something else I must be confusing it with