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Black Lives Matter: Grand Juries

A guide on information and history surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement and police brutality against black people in the United States..

Articles and Overviews

Everything you wanted to know about a grand jury but were afraid to ask from KQED
How a grand jury works from The Economist
Grand Jury from West's Encyclopedia of American Law, 2005 (must log in if you are off campus)
Why it's impossible to indict a cop from The Nation
It’s Incredibly Rare For A Grand Jury To Do What Ferguson’s Just Did from fivethirtyeight.com
Why Courts Can't Solve the Problem from Colorlines
England abolished grand juries...from PRI
Alternatives to grand juries from Aljazeera America
Thoughts on the Ferguson grand jury and prosecutor from Stanford Lawyer Blog

Grand Jury Reform
"One way to restore the legitimacy of criminal justice is to return the grand jury to its
role as a democratic institution of popular sovereignty."
Prosecutor Power
"The grand jury's function as a check on unfounded or intemperate accusations has
completely atrophied in a large class of cases."
History of Grand Juries

Justice Scalia on Grand Juries