Because grand jury proceedings are conducted secretly, they usually aren’t in the news much. That is, until grand juries decided not to prosecute the police officers who killed Eric Garner in New York City and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
Georgia uses grand juries too, though not all states do. Here, prosecutors have to get an indictment for serious crimes like murder or rape or kidnapping. The only way to get an indictment is to go to a grand jury.
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