In re Grand Jury

Mr. Foreman and Gentlemen of the Grand Jury: What is about to be said to you is not a charge by the court. It is advice given to you by a judge of the court responsive to your request for advice. Grand jurors are under legal obligation to follow and apply the law stated in a charge. Grand jurors are under no legal obligation to either follow or apply advice given to them at their reqúest by a judge of the court.

The advice so sought by you is upon a specific and stated question, namely, whether it is legally possible for certain persons named to appear and testify before you in a pending…