Sentences with phrase «grand jury system»

A bill to reform the state's grand jury system also stalled after the initial interest following Eric Garner's death on Staten Island.

Police were not indicted in the case, and that resulted in calls for reform of the grand jury system.

Declaring that the «grand jury system is broken» in «dealing with police... questions of criminality and killings» Sharpton urged federal government action akin to the mid-20th century actions on enforcing civil rights.

It looks like he will at least start with calling for more transparency in the grand jury system.

And some reforms of the grand jury system are also postponed until after the budget.

The governor is also expected to pitch reforms to the grand jury system.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday said he plans to push for reforms in police practice and the grand jury system during the upcoming legislative session, after a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict a police officer in the death of Eric Garner.

«I have to really confer [with] experts in the criminal justice system, but to me, I don't believe, you overly tinker with the grand jury system, the way it exists right now,» Skelos said.

«I think the grand jury system, the way it is right now, functions fairly well,» Skelos said.

«One would imagine that there is a secrecy in the grand jury system and that they would act professionally and there would not be a leaking of this type of information to the press,» Golden said.

What is less clear is whether the type of judgment proposed for schools with low - performing subgroups is legal under ESSA: would a state's use of a grand jury system to make judgments be acceptable?

The grand jury system will identify such schools every two or three years.