Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 10 Criminal Procedure - Chapter 10.27 Grand Juries -- Criminal Investigations

10.27.010 Short title -- Purpose
This chapter shall be known as the criminal investigatory act of 1971 and is enacted on behalf of the people of the state of Washington ...

10.27.020 Definitions
For the purposes of this chapter: (1) The term "court" shall mean any superior court in the state of Washington. (2) The term "public attorney" ...

10.27.030 Summoning grand jury
No grand jury shall be summoned to attend at the superior court of any county except upon an order signed by a majority of the ...

10.27.040 Selection of grand jury members
Members of the grand jury shall be selected in the manner provided in chapter 2.36 RCW.[1988 c 188 § 17; 1971 ex.s. c 67 § ...

10.27.050 Special inquiry judge -- Selection
In every county a superior court judge as designated by a majority of the judges shall be available to serve as a special inquiry judge ...

10.27.060 Discharge of panel, juror -- Grounds
Neither the grand jury panel nor any individual grand juror may be challenged, but the court may: (1) At any time before a grand jury ...

10.27.070 Oath -- Officers -- Witnesses
(1) When the grand jury is impaneled, the court shall appoint one of the jurors to be foreman, and also another of the jurors to ...

10.27.080 Persons authorized to attend -- Restrictions on attorneys
No person shall be present at sessions of the grand jury or special inquiry judge except the witness under examination and his attorney, public attorneys, ...

10.27.090 Secrecy enjoined -- Exceptions -- Use and availability of evidence
(1) Every member of the grand jury shall keep secret whatever he or any other grand juror has said, and how he or any other ...

10.27.100 Inquiry as to offenses -- Duties -- Investigation
The grand jurors shall inquire into every offense triable within the county for which any person has been held to answer, if an indictment has ...

10.27.110 Duration of sessions -- Extensions
The length of time which a grand jury may sit after being convened shall not exceed sixty days. Before expiration of the sixty day period ...

10.27.120 Self-incrimination -- Right to counsel
Any individual called to testify before a grand jury or special inquiry judge, whether as a witness or principal, if not represented by an attorney ...

10.27.130 Self-incrimination -- Refusal to testify or give evidence -- Procedure
If in any proceedings before a grand jury or special inquiry judge, a person refuses, or indicates in advance a refusal, to testify or provide ...

10.27.140 Witnesses -- Attendance
(1) Except as provided in this section, no person has the right to appear as a witness in a grand jury or special inquiry judge ...

10.27.150 Indictments -- Issuance
After hearing, examining and investigating the evidence before it, a grand jury may, in its discretion, issue an indictment against a principal. A grand jury ...

10.27.160 Grand jury report
The grand jury may prepare its conclusions, recommendations and suggestions in the form of a grand jury report. Such report shall be released to the ...

10.27.170 Special inquiry judge -- Petition for order
When any public attorney, corporation counsel or city attorney has reason to suspect crime or corruption, within the jurisdiction of such attorney, and there is ...

10.27.180 Special inquiry judge -- Disqualification from subsequent proceedings
The judge serving as a special inquiry judge shall be disqualified from acting as a magistrate or judge in any subsequent court proceeding arising from ...

10.27.190 Special inquiry judge -- Direction to public attorney for proceedings in another county -- Procedure
Upon petition of a public attorney to the special inquiry judge that there is reason to suspect that there exists evidence of crime and corruption ...