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5 Scraps 1 (1929)

handle is hein.journals/scrapsop5 and id is 1 raw text is: SC RAP S OFFICE OF THh UNITED STATES ATTORNEY SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Edited By Alvin icK. Sylvester Vol. V January 19, 1929 No.1 THE GRAND.JURY SYSTEM (The following is a portion of an address by Mr. Tuttle at the meet- ing of the Federal Grand Jury Asso- ciation at the Hotel Astor on Jan- uary 17, 1929.) The meeting of this association held in December last, former County District Attorney William Travers Jerome stated that in his opinion a grand jury was a vermiform appendix on the body of the law, antedeluvian and should be abolished. He also stated that grand juries often wasted the time of the witnesses, refused to tdict guilty people because of political influence and at times indicted innocent people through lack of proper care. In my judgment such an indictment of the grand jury system is without any warrant whatever; and Digitized from Best Copy Available