Educate Yourself on The 4th Branch of Government, We the People's Grand Jury .
Submitted by cactus1010 on Tue, 07/28/2009 - 20:31
http://www.cusc.org/editorial/3563.htm
All of us may one day serve as grand jurors in federal court, and I hope this article will educate the reader to his/her true power as granted by the Constitution. For that power, despite having been hidden for many years behind the veil of a legislative fraud, still exists in all of its glory in the 5th Amendment to the Constitution. The US Supreme Court has confirmed and reinforced that power.
So please, copy this report and paste it far and wide. It is not spin. It is not false. It is not for sale, it is not copyrighted by me, so paste and quote it freely. This report is the truth and we need truth, now, more than ever.
The Constitutional power of “we the people” sitting as grand jurors has been subverted by a deceptive play on words since 1946 when the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure were enacted. Regardless, the power I am going to explain to you still exists in the Constitution, and has been upheld by the United States Supreme Court despite the intention of the legislature and other legal scholars to make our power disappear with a cheap magic trick.
Repeat a lie with force and repetition and the lie becomes known as truth. In the case of the 5th Amendment to the Constitution, the power of the grand jury, to return “presentments” on its own proactive initiation, without reliance upon a US Attorney to concur in such criminal charges, has been usurped by an insidious play on words.
Most of this article is going to quote other scholars, judges and legislators as I piece together a brief but thorough history of the federal grand jury for your review. But the punch line is my personal contribution to the cause:
HISTORY OF FEDERAL GRAND JURY POWER
I want to draw your attention to a law review article, CREIGHTON LAW REVIEW, Vol. 33, No. 4 1999-2000, 821, IF IT’S NOT A RUNAWAY, IT’S NOT A REAL GRAND JURY by Roger Roots, J.D.
“In addition to its traditional role of screening criminal cases for prosecution, common law grand juries had the power to exclude prosecutors from their presence at any time and to investigate public officials without governmental influence. These fundamental powers allowed grand juries to serve a vital function of oversight upon the government. The function of a grand jury to ferret out government corruption was the primary purpose of the grand jury system in ages past.”
The 5th Amendment:
“No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury.”
An article appearing in American Juror, the newsletter of the American Jury Institute and the Fully Informed Jury Association, citing the famed American jurist, Joseph Story, explained :
“An indictment is a written accusation of an offence preferred to, and presented, upon oath, as true, by a grand jury, at the suit of the government. An indictment is framed by the officers of the government, and laid before the grand jury. Presentments, on the other hand, are the result of a jury’s independent action:
‘A presentment, properly speaking, is an accusation, made by a grand jury of its own mere motion, of an offence upon its own observation and knowledge, or upon evidence before it, and without any bill of indictment laid before it at the suit of the government. Upon a presentment, the proper officer of the court must frame an indictment, before the party accused can be put to answer it.’
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The FIJA mission is to
The FIJA mission is to educate Americans regarding their full powers as jurors, including their ability to rely on personal conscience, to judge the merit of the law and its application, and to nullify bad law, when necessary for justice, by finding for the defendant.
http://fija.org/
but who prosecutes ???
I know of many (recent) grand juries that have served presentments/indictments.... but still no justice/action by law enforcement. It seems that all that happens is they ignore them...
Where/--and most importantly how are these juries will enforced?
Do you have any links whatsoever showing a federal grand jury that actually got a conviction..or was able to get a corrupt politician put away?
Everyone needs to be
Everyone needs to be informed with the power the jury has. Jurry nulification can change every thing!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
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Wonder if a Grand Jury can
be formed to indict our reps and senators for not reading what they vote on? And not leave it to their staff, but actually read themselves word for word, page by page..
More educational material on
More educational material on Grand Juries.
http://www.coppercards.com/law/grand_jury.html
the Grand Jury is not something managed or controlled by the government. District Attorneys, Prosecutors, Judges, Lawyers, or any officers of the court or any government officials have no place or function in Grand Juries.
The Grand Jury is a body of laymen, free from technical rules, acting if necessary in secret, pledged to indict no one because of prejudice, and to free no one because of special favor.
"Despite the vast power of grand juries, there is little in the way of judicial or legislative response designed to impose some supervisory restrictions on them." - FindLaw.com on Indictment by Grand Jury
Grand Juries belong exclusively to "We the People" they are free of any control of the government or court. Anyone can call and form a Grand Jury by simply randomly selecting 23 citizens from the community where a crime took place. Jurors on Grand Juries are not managed by any judge, they are free to conduct their own investigations and to gather their own evidence.
http://www.riseupforameri...
http://www.riseupforamerica.com/
Presentments filed in D.C.!!!
On Monday, June 29, 2009, the team met with and handed SuperAmericanGrandJury Presentments to:
1. Secret Service for the White House - SERVED
2. USDOJ - United States Dept of Justice - guards sent us instead to the FBI
3. FBI - SERVED PRESENTMENTS
4. District Court - U.S. Marshalls - We got new coverletters notarized and then the Clerks of the District Court TOOK PRESENTMENTS - PRAY HARD FOR FAVOR WITH CHIEF MAGISTRATE JUDGE OF THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT, ROYCE LAMBERTH, WHO WILL GIVE MAIN DECISION WHEN HE SEES THESE PAPERS DELIVERED TO HIM
4A. Please do not make any more contact with the Judges office.
5. SCOTUS - Supreme Court of the United States - ALL papers must go through the guard house on the backside of the Supreme Court. Officer TOOK PRESENTMENTS, FIXED A LABEL IN OUR RECEIPT AREA WHICH HE EXPLAINED TO ME WAS THEIR SIGNATURE; HAD SUPREME COURT AND DATE AND TIME STAMPED: SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES SERVED PRESENTMENTS!!!
6. PENTAGON - CARL AND MACK - OUR BRAVE MEN SERVED PRESENTMENTS!!! (THEY WERE SURROUNDED AND SEARCHED, AND EVEN THEIR TRUCK WAS SEARCHED!)
7. On Monday, June 29, 2009, Carl and Mack delivered SuperAmericanGrandJury Presentments to Representative Ron Paul and Michele Bachman!!! Penny and press covered presentments to Senators John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison, both of Texas, and Representative Randy Neugebauer of Texas, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell!