Sentences with phrase «grand jury hearing»

It is filed by the District Attorney with a superior court when a defendant waives his or her rights to a grand jury hearing.

Even before her findings were released, there were reports of new subpoenas being issued and a grand jury hearing testimony.

Not all evangelicals believed that Darren Wilson, a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown in August, should have been indicted in a recent grand jury hearing.

Last week it was reported that a grand jury heard two female trainers allege they were sexually assaulted by an assistant coach.

An Albany County grand jury heard testimonyyesterday from at least one key witness in a widening probe of former Sen. George Maziarz and his campaign finances that now also involves former Niagara County Republican Chairman Henry Wojtaszek.

An Albany County grand jury heard testimony Thursday from at least one key witness in a widening probe of former State Sen. George D. Maziarz and his campaign finances that now also involves former Niagara County Republican Chairman Henry F. Wojtaszek, according to several sources familiar with the situation.

Not exact matches

The process of preparing a client for multiple congressional hearings, and possibly a grand jury appearance, is time - consuming and expensive.

No one who is called to testify before a Grand Jury is required to keep the hearing private.

A grand jury will hear the case June 11.

The local DA aid that Jones» case will soon be heard by a grand jury.

The facts have been in dispute, but now a mixed - race grand jury has heard them and they have made their decision.

It follows that the minister may be forced to violate the sanctity of the confessional by testifying at the police station, in a pretrial hearing, in court, before a grand jury or even before the legislature.

Kane acted after Superior Court Judge Eugene Kelly, who has been sitting and will continue to sit in Hartford as a special one - man grand jury, heard testimony on widespread corruption in the sport.

Since then federal grand juries in Las Vegas and other cities have been hearing testimony about the Computer Group.

Lawyers for Cor Development executives Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi say Bharara's high - profile media tactics - including tweets, news conferences and early morning perp walks — deprived them of a fair hearing when corruption charges were presented to a grand jury last fall.

In the case of Garner, whose confrontation with police was captured on a dramatic video on which Garner can be heard repeatedly saying he can't breathe, former Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan declined to release minutes from the grand jury.

Retired Troy Police Detective Sgt. Patrick Bornt leaves the Rensselaer City Hall Thursday Sept. 28, 2017 in Rensselaer, N.Y. where a grand jury is hearing the case against Rensselaer County District Attorney

Retired Troy Police Detective Sgt. Patrick Bornt leaves the Rensselaer City Hall Thursday Sept. 28, 2017 in Rensselaer, N.Y. where a grand jury is hearing the case against Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove.

«We have heard today from one of my US lawyers that there may be a US indictment for espionage for me coming from a secret grand jury investigation,» the Wikileaks founder told Sky News.

District Attorney Ken Thompson said in December that he would convene a grand jury to hear evidence against Liang.

The grand jury, which first convened in August, has weighed evidence — including a video recorded by bystanders of Mr. Garner's arrest — and heard testimony from officers and emergency responders involved.

State and federal grand juries are reportedly hearing evidence about de Blasio administration fund - raising.

Bharara's prosecutors have been reviewing whether de Blasio traded government favors for campaign donations since at least April 2016; a grand jury has heard testimony; and two weeks ago Bharara's lieutenants grilled the mayor for four hours.

Wood also tossed out Skelos defense attorney motions to bar wiretap evidence gathered from Dean and Adam's phones, rejected their request for a hearing on whether prosecutors leaked grand jury information, and denied their motion for a more detailed description of the charges.

The indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in New York City, which heard evidence presented by the staff of Preet Bharara, former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

According to the Times, Bharara has impaneled a grand jury to hear allegations that Adam Skelos helped the company soak up a Nassau County contract worth as much as $ 12 million, possibly gaining an edge in the bidding from his father's lofty position in state government.

Also, we have yet to hear much about the governor's plan to reform the criminal justice system, of which he pledged a «soup to nuts» review in the wake of the Eric Garner grand jury decision.

Also at 9:30 a.m., a protest precedes a 10 a.m. hearing in a state lawsuit seeking the release of grand jury proceedings in the Eric Garner case.

The duo had wanted a hearing into their allegation that the government «leaked grand jury information» to the media in violation of secrecy rules — a claim federal authorities denied.

Law enforcement sources tell NY1 that a federal grand jury is continuing to hear testimony about the NYPD chokehold death of Eric Garner.

A federal grand jury in Manhattan has begun hearing evidence in the case, which focuses on two de Blasio fund - raisers — Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg — with investigators trying to determine if the two men benefited from some type of favorable municipal action, or the promise of some action, in exchange for their donations, their fund - raising or some other gesture.

Among those discussed is allowing the release of evidence and testimony heard by a grand jury in cases where a civilian is killed by police.

The grand jury did not hear about an interview between Assemblyman Michael Norris and the FBI, for example.

The hearing would serve as a way for attorneys to show that the grand jury may have been misled to indict Maziarz.

Both grand juries have heard testimony from Working Families Party members about never receiving absentee ballots nor applying for them.

Federal and state grand juries have been convened to hear testimony in the cases involving City Hall, but de Blasio said Wednesday that he hasn't testified before either one.

Schneiderman's grand jury also heard from former Assistant District Attorney Vincent J. O'Neill, who was abruptly fired by Abelove on Oct. 6, several days after O'Neill was contacted by Schneiderman's office.

Nichols has been overseeing the grand jury investigation, which has been hearing testimony at the city courthouse in Rensselaer over the past two months.

The grand jury also heard testimony that contrasted the rapid course of the French investigation with the far longer process that followed the August 2015 shooting of Thaddeus Faison by Officer Joshua Comitale.

Schneiderman's office obtained court authorization in August to convene the Rensselaer County grand jury, which began hearing testimony Sept. 20 at Rensselaer City Court, about nine miles away from the county courthouse where Abelove works.

MANHATTAN — Two grand juries have begun hearing testimony about whether Mayor Bill de Blasio's campaign fundraising efforts violated various election laws, according to a report in The New York Times.

He announced Friday that he was impaneling a grand jury to hear evidence in the incident.

The case against the husband of Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks will move forward when a grand jury is convened to hear his testimony, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Wednesday.

Earlier this month, following a grand jury's decision to not indict an officer in the death of Eric Garner and the murder of two NYPD officers, Senate Republicans announced that they would hold a series of hearings around the state weigh changes to the criminal justice system.

Among the 202 voters who agree with the grand jury's decision and had heard about both candidates, Donovan leads 74 - 14 percent.

Separate grand juries have reportedly begun hearing evidence related to the state and federal corruption investigations into the de Blasio administration.

The grand jury, which met for two months, reviewed thousands of pages of documents and heard testimony from 21 witnesses — including eight sexual abuse victims — did not hand down indictments, name pedophile priests or identify parishes where abuse took place due to the constraints of the law.

New York City Public Advocate Letitia James will file a brief today with the New York State Supreme Court seeking expedited appeal hearings against the denied petitions to release grand jury transcripts and evidence in the Eric Garner case.

Meanwhile, state and federal grand juries have been hearing testimony related to the separate probes into the de Blasio administration's fund - raising.

Bratton's comments came at a wide - ranging state Senate hearing on public safety during which he forcefully defended comments Mayor Bill de Blasio made after a grand jury declined to indict in the Eric Garner case and acknowledged the size of the NYPD's patrol force is too small.