State v. Freeman

The first question raised by these appeals is whether the trial court erred in overruling appellants’ pretrial motions to dismiss the indictments because of alleged irregularities in the grand jury proceedings. Specifically, appellants allege that Judges Joseph R. Kainrad and George E. Martin improperly appeared as witnesses before the grand jury, having both participated in the jury selection process. Appellants argued that this irregularity rendered the grand jury proceedings and the resultant indictments void. The court of appeals upheld the trial court’s overruling of appellants’ motion…