ARTICLE 4. Conduct of Investigations

Article 4 added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 501.

§§ 939–939.91 · 14 sections

• § 939 No person other than those specified in Article 3 (commencing with Section 934), and in Sections 939.1, 939.11, and 939.21, and the officer having custody of a…
• § 939.1 The grand jury acting through its foreman and the attorney general or the district attorney may make a joint written request for public sessions of the grand…
• § 939.11 Any member of the grand jury who has a hearing, sight, or speech disability may request an interpreter when his or her services are necessary to assist the…
• § 939.2 A subpoena requiring the attendance of a witness before the grand jury may be signed and issued by the district attorney, his investigator or, upon request of…
• § 939.21 (a) Any prosecution witness before the grand jury in a proceeding involving a violation of Section 243.4, 261, 273a, 273d, 285, 286, 287, 288, 288.5, or 289,…
• § 939.3 In any investigation or proceeding before a grand jury for any felony offense when a person refuses to answer a question or produce evidence of any other kind…
• § 939.4 The foreman may administer an oath to any witness appearing before the grand jury.
• § 939.5 Before considering a charge against any person, the foreman of the grand jury shall state to those present the matter to be considered and the person to be…
• § 939.6 (a) Subject to subdivision (b), in the investigation of a charge, the grand jury shall receive no other evidence than what is: (1) Given by witnesses produced…
• § 939.7 The grand jury is not required to hear evidence for the defendant, but it shall weigh all the evidence submitted to it, and when it has reason to believe that…
• § 939.71 (a) If the prosecutor is aware of exculpatory evidence, the prosecutor shall inform the grand jury of its nature and existence. Once the prosecutor has…
• § 939.8 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…
• § 939.9 A grand jury shall make no report, declaration, or recommendation on any matter except on the basis of its own investigation of the matter made by such grand…
• § 939.91 (a) A grand jury which investigates a charge against a person, and as a result thereof cannot find an indictment against such person, shall, at the request of…