In re Judicial Inquiry No. 85-01

This is a petition for review of a ruling by a grand jury panel that denied the petitioners’ request for the release of evidence used in grand jury proceedings. The dispositive issue is whether, despite intervening legislative changes that created a right of appellate review, the statute governing the release of evidence that was in effect at the time when the grand jury filed its report, which contained no right of appeal, governs a subsequent request for disclosure of the evidence before that grand jury. We conclude that: (1) the statute in effect at the time the grand jury filed its report…