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1 Grand Jury System of New Jersey 1886

handle is hein.beal/gdjysmnwjy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE CRIMINAL LAW MAGAZINE AND REPORTER. Vol. VIll. DECEMBER, 1886. No. 6. OUR GRAND JURY SYSTEM.* Before the state should present an indictment or formal accu- sation of crime against a citizen, a preliminary investigation of some sort is generally recognized as necessary. Crime seeks concealment. It must in many cases be searched for diligently with the aid of all the compulsory means of collecting evidence which the state can supply. After the evidence has been gathered some tribunal must determine whether it makes out a prima facie case-whether it amounts to enough to make it proper to subject the suspected individual to the suffering, expense and shame of a public trial for crime. Of course, the inquisitorial tribunal which exercises such arbitrary powers, affecting life and liberty, should be carefully guarded against abuse-should be constituted with the possibility of abuse in view. In New Jersey, as in most if not all the other states of the Union, * The manifest intent of this article is is equally applicable to that ?of a large to expose the defective workings of the number of the other states, the editor grand jury system in the State of New considers the local character of the article Jersey, and with that as the end in view, more apparent than real, and that the the writer has made the essay somewhat importance of the subject fully warrants local in form; but, as what he says of its publication.-ED. the grand jury system in New Jersey

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