"Runaway" grand jury: flagging issues with this section
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| =="Runaway" grand jury== | =="Runaway" grand jury== |
| Occasionally, grand juries go aggressively beyond the control of the prosecuting attorney. When the grand jury does so the situation is called a "runaway" grand jury. Runaway grand juries sometimes happen in [[government corruption]] or [[organized crime]] cases if the grand jury comes to believe that the prosecutor has been improperly influenced. Such cases were common in the 19th century but have become infrequent since the 1930s.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.udayton.edu/~grandjur/faq/faq8.htm | title = What is a "runaway" grand jury? | last = Brenner | first = Susan | author2 = Lori Shaw | year = 2003 | publisher = [[University of Dayton]] School of Law | access-date = 2007-03-29 | archive-date = 2006-02-18 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060218195142/http://www.udayton.edu/~grandjur/faq/faq8.htm | url-status = dead }}</ref> | Occasionally, grand juries go aggressively beyond the control of the prosecuting attorney. When the grand jury does so the situation is called a "runaway" grand jury. Runaway grand juries sometimes happen in [[government corruption]] or [[organized crime]] cases if the grand jury comes to believe that the prosecutor has been improperly influenced. Such cases were common in the 19th century but have become infrequent since the 1930s.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.udayton.edu/~grandjur/faq/faq8.htm | title = What is a "runaway" grand jury? | last = Brenner | first = Susan | author2 = Lori Shaw | year = 2003 | publisher = [[University of Dayton]] School of Law | access-date = 2007-03-29 | archive-date = 2006-02-18 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060218195142/http://www.udayton.edu/~grandjur/faq/faq8.htm | url-status = dead }}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=May 2024}} |
| The [[William C. Dodge#Runaway grand jury|1935 Runaway Grand Jury]] in [[New York County]] was investigating gambling and mobster [[Dutch Schultz]] when jury members complained in open court that prosecutors were not pursuing obvious leads and hinted that the [[district attorney]] was possibly receiving [[Bribery|payoff]]s. [[Thomas E. Dewey]] was appointed as an independent prosecutor.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gl7BQ7rvz6EC&dq="William+Copeland+Dodge"&pg=PA50|title=Fighting Organized Crime: Politics, Justice, and the Legacy of Thomas E. Dewey|first1=Mary M.|last1=Stolberg|date=October 28, 1995|publisher=UPNE|isbn=9781555532451|via=Google Books}}</ref> | The [[William C. Dodge#Runaway grand jury|1935 Runaway Grand Jury]] in [[New York County]] was investigating gambling and mobster [[Dutch Schultz]] when jury members complained in open court that prosecutors were not pursuing obvious leads and hinted that the [[district attorney]] was possibly receiving [[Bribery|payoff]]s. [[Thomas E. Dewey]] was appointed as an independent prosecutor.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gl7BQ7rvz6EC&dq="William+Copeland+Dodge"&pg=PA50|title=Fighting Organized Crime: Politics, Justice, and the Legacy of Thomas E. Dewey|first1=Mary M.|last1=Stolberg|date=October 28, 1995|publisher=UPNE|isbn=9781555532451|via=Google Books}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=May 2024}}{{Context needed|date=May 2024}} |
| ==In media== | ==In media== |
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