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<blockquote data-quote="slick4591" data-source="post: 1166857" data-attributes="member: 16503"><p>Yep, there are my personal experiences. During my 20 years as a DA investigator we rotated in and out doing GJ baliff jobs. We also took cases in on intake and got them ready for presentation. I've seen plenty of cases where the GJ wrongly (IMHO) and correctly went against the prosecutor's recommendation, but If you had to put percentage number on it it would be below 1% of the time.</p><p></p><p>I've seen where prosecutor's wrongly asked for True Bills when a NO Bill should have been delivered and vice versa. Everyone has their own ideas and sometime their biases get in the way. (I'm talking about everyone involved in the process including GJ members.) Sometimes <strong>all</strong> the evidence does not get presented. There's to much prosecutor discretion involved, but I don't know how you get around it.</p><p></p><p>My wife has been a GJ legal secretary in the same office almost 30 years. Although we don't discuss evidentiary or testimony matters, she does get highly frustrated with things going on, and like any wife she unloads it on me.</p><p></p><p>I don't want anyone thinking that I'm saying that all GJ processes are bad because they are not. I am saying that they can be manipulated to one's personal agenda and have been. If you take that MO governor and put him in charge of the GJ you would have a pretty good idea of what would happen to that case all because of the politics involved.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slick4591, post: 1166857, member: 16503"] Yep, there are my personal experiences. During my 20 years as a DA investigator we rotated in and out doing GJ baliff jobs. We also took cases in on intake and got them ready for presentation. I've seen plenty of cases where the GJ wrongly (IMHO) and correctly went against the prosecutor's recommendation, but If you had to put percentage number on it it would be below 1% of the time. I've seen where prosecutor's wrongly asked for True Bills when a NO Bill should have been delivered and vice versa. Everyone has their own ideas and sometime their biases get in the way. (I'm talking about everyone involved in the process including GJ members.) Sometimes [b]all[/b] the evidence does not get presented. There's to much prosecutor discretion involved, but I don't know how you get around it. My wife has been a GJ legal secretary in the same office almost 30 years. Although we don't discuss evidentiary or testimony matters, she does get highly frustrated with things going on, and like any wife she unloads it on me. I don't want anyone thinking that I'm saying that all GJ processes are bad because they are not. I am saying that they can be manipulated to one's personal agenda and have been. If you take that MO governor and put him in charge of the GJ you would have a pretty good idea of what would happen to that case all because of the politics involved. [/QUOTE]
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