Board of Education of Jefferson County v. Nicholson

The Commonwealth’s Attorney for the Thirtieth Judicial District of Kentucky filed a motion with the Honorable S. Rush Nicholson, one of the judges of the Jefferson Circuit Court, Criminal Division, requesting that he empanel a special grand jury to consider “ * * * matters of alleged financial irregularities in the operation of the Jefferson County School Board.” On October 20, 1976, Judge Nicholson entered an order “ * * * that a Special Grand Jury for November, 1976 will be impaneled, pursuant to KRS 29.205, to consider matters of alleged financial irregularities in the operation of the…