State v. Superior Court

OPINION

GRANT, Presiding Judge.

This court accepted jurisdiction of this petition for special action in order to answer the question of whether a defendant in a criminal case has the right to post-indictment questioning of the grand jury.

Duncan W. Edwards (Edwards), real party in interest, was indicted by the 36th Yavapai County Grand Jury in Prescott, Arizona, for Counts I and III, fraudulent schemes and artifices; Count II, theft; and Counts IV through X, forgery. Following the indictment, Edwards’s attorney requested permission to question the grand jurors who indicted Edwards regarding…