by admin | May 13, 2021 | Criminal Procedure, Kentucky
(1) If the defendant has been held to answer pursuant to RCr 3.14(1) and the votes of the grand jurors are insufficient in number to find an indictment as to anyone or more charges or counts presented to the grand jury, the foreperson shall forthwith so report in...
by admin | May 13, 2021 | Criminal Procedure, Kentucky
(1) If the defendant has been held to answer and the votes of the grand jurors are insufficient in number to find an indictment, the foreperson shall so report forthwith to the circuit court in writing. The circuit court shall order a discharge of the defendant from...
by admin | May 13, 2021 | Criminal Procedure, Kentucky
All indictments shall be returned to the circuit judge by the foreperson in the presence of the grand jury in open court, and thereupon shall be filed with the clerk of the court and retained in the clerk’s office as public records. An indictment for a...
by admin | May 13, 2021 | Criminal Procedure, Kentucky
No person except the attorney or attorneys for the Commonwealth, a stenographer or operator of a recording device appointed by the attorney for the Commonwealth, the witness under examination, an interpreter, if needed, a parent, guardian or custodian of a minor...
by admin | May 13, 2021 | Criminal Procedure, Kentucky
(1) The attorney for the Commonwealth shall cause all of the testimony before a grand jury to be recorded. For this purpose the attorney for the Commonwealth may appoint a stenographer to take in shorthand the testimony of witnesses or may cause the testimony to be...
by admin | May 13, 2021 | Criminal Procedure, Kentucky
(1) The attorney for the Commonwealth, or an assistant, designated by the attorney for the Commonwealth, shall attend the grand jurors when requested by them, and he or she may do so on his or her own initiative, for the purpose of examining witnesses in their...
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