State v. Adams

Johnson, Judge.

Eighteen individuals and ten corporations were indicted for theft, forgery, false statements and racketeering. The trial court entered an order granting the defendants’ motion to quash the indictments and purporting to grant the defendants’ motion to suppress evidence obtained pursuant to improper grand jury subpoenas. The State appeals from the court’s order.

1. The State asserts that the trial court erred in quashing the indictments. The court quashed the indictments because the grand jury, which had been summoned, sworn, discharged and reconvened in the same term, had not…