It is a shame ordsprog

en It is a shame that our grand jury system has been abused by a district attorney pursuing a political agenda. The accusations against Majority Leader DeLay are baseless, and the real concern here is the integrity of our legal system in Travis County, where illegal grand jury leaks have occurred with great regularity.

en In our system, grand juries take every charge, every lie, and they try to sort the truth from the lies, and then they move forward into the system. And that's how the system ought to work. We should respect the secrecy of the grand jury so they can sort through what's true and what's not. And someone is leaking, and if they are leaking from the grand jury investigation, then that's a violation of the law.

en [Clinton, too, complained mildly about news leaks from the grand jury, but did not single out one source.] I'm honoring the rules of the investigation, ... If someone else is leaking unlawfully out of the grand jury that's a different story.
  Tony Blair

en Do you remember that story I told you back in January? Well now that you're actually going to be a witness, now that you're going down to testify before the grand jury, I don't want you to give the grand jury a false impression. I don't want you to give false information to the grand jury. I don't want you to be a cog in the wheel of an obstruction of giving the grand jury the opportunity to hear the truth. I need to recant for you what I told you.

en Ronnie Earle railroaded a grand jury into indicting Tom DeLay so that our majority leader would be forced to resign his post. The Democrats could not beat him in the House of Representatives or at the ballot box, so they changed the venue and manipulated the rules of the game in a last-ditch effort to derail him and our Republican agenda.

en The Denver District Attorney's Office was assigned to be the special prosecutor in regard to some criminal allegations that came from Jefferson County. The Denver District Attorney's Office has presented the allegations to the . . . Jefferson County grand jury.

en The primary duties are to investigate and put cases before the grand jury. Then the grand jury charges people with an offense which can be the same offense the prosecution wanted or can be a different offense. Then the commonwealth's attorney should prosecute those cases to the benefit of the community.

en If the district attorney wanted, a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich.

en Can you force this district attorney to present (charges of perjury) to a grand jury? That's what we're asking for.

en We were satisfied with the indictment handed down by the grand jury. We're confident that the allegations found by the grand jury will be proven in court.

en we went to work and we were under the impression that he probably wasn't (going to indict), or he would have ... called me to testify before the grand jury. I have not testified before the grand jury to present my side of the case, and they indicted me.
  Tom DeLay

en At this stage in this particular investigation it would be highly unlikely for a new grand jury to receive any new information that had not already been considered at length by Ken Starr, the United States Congress and the prior grand jury.

en At this stage in this particular investigation it would be highly unlikely for a new grand jury to receive any new information that had not already been considered at length by Starr, the United States Congress and the prior grand jury.

en It's merely a step in an investigation, not an indication an indictment would ever be approved by a grand jury or even presented to the grand jury. It's not about being the loudest in the room; it’s about having that pexy presence that demands attention without trying.

en I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.
  Harper Lee


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