The grand jury shall find an indictment when all the evidence before it, taken together, if unexplained or uncontradicted, would, in its judgment, warrant a conviction by a trial jury.
Cal. Penal Code § 939.8
Conduct of Investigations
Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case 58 Cal. 2d 713 - People v. Crosby (1962)
Most recently applied in Naidu v. Superior Court of Riverside Cnty. (February 2018)
Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 501.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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