Arkansas Code Title 16, Subtitle 6, Chapter 85, Subchapter 5 - Grand Jury Proceedings

• § 16-85-501 - Appointment of Foreman and Clerk.
  (a) The court shall appoint one of the number of every grand jury as foreman.(b) Every grand jury may appoint one of the members...
• § 16-85-502 - Minutes.
  The minutes of the proceedings and evidence shall be delivered to the prosecuting attorney when directed by the grand jury.
• § 16-85-503 - Scope of Inquiry.
  (a) The grand jury must inquire: (1) Into the case of every person imprisoned in the county jail or detention facility or on bail...
• § 16-85-504 - Witnesses -- Subpoena.
  (a) The clerk, on the request of the foreman of the grand jury or of the prosecuting attorney, shall issue subpoenas for witnesses to...
• § 16-85-505 - Witnesses -- Oath.
  The foreman of the grand jury shall have power to administer the oath to the witnesses appearing before the grand jury.
• § 16-85-506 - Witnesses -- Joint Offenders.
  In all cases where two (2) or more persons are jointly or otherwise concerned in the commission of any criminal offense, either of the...
• § 16-85-507 - Witnesses -- Refusal to Testify.
  When a witness, under examination, refuses to testify or to answer a question put to him or her by the grand jury, the foreman...
• § 16-85-508 - Witnesses -- Securing Testimony of Material Witnesses.
  (a) If there is a reasonable belief that a material witness in any grand jury investigation may absent himself or herself from the jurisdiction...
• § 16-85-509 - Witnesses -- Compensation.
  (a) It shall be the duty of the foreman of each grand jury in this state to keep an abstract showing the name of...
• § 16-85-510 - Disclosure of Media Sources.
  Before any editor, reporter, or other writer for any newspaper, periodical, radio station, television station, or Internet news source, or publisher of any newspaper,...
• § 16-85-511 - Evidence.
  The grand jury is not bound to hear evidence for the defendant, but it is their duty to weigh all the evidence before them....
• § 16-85-512 - Persons Permitted to Be Present.
  No persons except the prosecuting attorney, the court reporter, and the witnesses under examination are permitted to be present while the grand jury is...
• § 16-85-513 - Indictment.
  (a) The grand jury should find an indictment when all the evidence before them, taken together, would, in their judgment, if unexplained, warrant a...
• § 16-85-514 - Disclosure of Information.
  (a) Every member of the grand jury must keep secret whatever the member or any other grand juror may have said, or in what...
• § 16-85-515 - Advice of Court or Prosecuting Attorney.
  The grand jury may, at all reasonable times, ask the advice of the court or the prosecuting attorney.
• § 16-85-516 - Indictment of Grand Juror.
  Any grand juror may be indicted by the grand jury of which he or she is a member, but when any complaint shall be...
• § 16-85-517 - Special Grand Jury.
  (a) At any time a grand jury is not in session, the court, in its discretion, by order entered of record, may impanel a...
• § 16-85-518 - Experts -- Expenses.
  Grand juries may employ experts and other professionals to assist in the grand jury investigations if, prior to the employment, the quorum court and...

Last modified: November 15, 2016