MicroWaveTrump supporters post names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors online
athos77I looked at the indictment last night and noticed it included the names of the grand jurors. I dropped my head into my hands, knowing this was inevitable.
Georgia law is that grand jurors names are public.
Yeah, pretty naive. Or evil. Maybe both?
I didn't know that. I wish they had a process for applying to redact, for cases like this :(
【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】Do you in GA whether grand jurors are professionals or pulled in for random jury duty?
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.
It prevents loading the jury to get a specific outcome. That said, it should come with protection or a delay or something.
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?
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.
Just to clarify, the sitting grand jury does not then sit on the jury for the trial.
That’s generally right. I 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.