State v. Selby’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “Where an indictment of the Grand Jury is regular upon its face, there is a conclusive presumption that there was sufficient evidence to warrant the indictment; * * * and, consequently even the Court itself cannot inquire whether there was sufficient evidence before the Grand Jury to warrant its return of the indictments in question.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hammond v. Brown