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Injury Required to Enforce Grand Jury Law
Loaded on July 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1998, page 25
The court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit held that while individuals can seek judicial enforcement of a law requiring that evidence be presented to a grand jury, the party seeking enforcement must allege injury in order to have standing. Federal prisoners Joe Mohwish and Donald Sargeant sent ...
Filed under:
DOC/BOP misconduct,
Prison Industries,
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution,
Standing,
Juries,
Mandamus.
Location:
Washington.
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