State v. Paulsen

McCORMICK, Justice.

This appeal involves questions about the regularity of proceedings of a grand jury. On defendants’ joint motion, the trial court dismissed the indictments of defendants on two grounds. One was that the grand jury was illegally impaneled because the original grand jury for the quarter was not shown to have been discharged when the indicting grand jury was selected. The other was that the defendants were denied due process of law under the Iowa and United States Constitutions because an assistant attorney general improperly influenced the grand jury. In resisting the State’s…