grand juries

Noun

grand jury (plural grand juries)

1. A group of citizens assembled by the government to hear evidence against an accused, and determine whether an indictment for a crime should be brought.
   • Though the current wave of die-ins began after grand juries in Ferguson and New York City refused to indict the cops who used lethal force against Michael Brown and Eric Garner, they tap into a deep well of what professor Salamishah Tillet calls “civic estrangement” from a state that ignores...2014 December 19, Paul M Farber, “Die-ins demand that we bear witness to black people's fears that they'll be next”, in The Guardian
2. The legal process that uses such a jury.