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Excerpt from Reform of the Grand Jury System: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Fourth Congress, Second Session S. 3274, H. R 1277, H. R. 6006, H. R. 6207, H. R. 10947, H. R. 11660, H. R. 11870, H. R. 14146, and H A further problem with the current grand jury system is its unac countability. Confronted by instance after instance of grand jury abuse, the. Courts have repeatedly failed to exercise their supervisory responsibilities over the grand jury process. Because of this judicial neglect of grand jury abuse the responsibility for reform now rests squarely on the Congress. These hearings represent the beginning of the reform process in the Senate. This subcommittee will, in the course of its deliberations, receive the views of judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and ordinary citizens. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.