Legal Opinion
Fields v. Soloff
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 11, 1990No. 507, Docket 90-7240PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:
The purpose and powers of grand juries have been subject to debate for many years. Over three hundred years ago, John Somers, later Lord Chancellor of England, explained the role of the grand jury:
[T]he truth of such inquisitions should be put in the hands of Persons of understanding, and integrity, indifferent and impartial, that might suffer no man to be falsely accused, or defamed, nor the lives of any to be put in jeopardy, by the malicious conspiracies of great or small ... For these necessary, honest ends was the institution of Grand Juries. Somers, The…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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- Imbler v. PachtmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Stump v. SparkmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Pierson v. RaySupreme Court of the United States · 1967
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3Cited by35 opinions
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