State Ex Rel. Pinson v. Maynard

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• noting that an 15 indictment determines that the grand jury found probable cause for a defendant to stand trial
• approving reasoning “that errors before a grand jury, such as perjured testimony, could easily be corrected during a trial with its incumbent procedural and evidentiary safeguards.”
• The function of the grand jury “is not to determine the truth of the charges against the defendant, but to determine whether there is sufficient probable cause to require the defendant to stand trial.”
• “In reviewing the evidence for sufficiency to support the indictment, the court must be certain that there was significant and material evidence presented to the grand jury to support all elements of the alleged criminal offense.”
• requiring dismissal without prejudice for witness misconduct
• requiring dismissal without prejudice for witness misconduct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).