Oregon Statutes - Chapter 132 - Grand Jury, Indictments and Other Accusatory Instruments

• 132.010   Composition.
  A grand jury is a body of seven persons drawn from the jurors in attendance upon the circuit court at a particular jury service term,...
• 132.020   Selection of grand juries; law applicable to additional jury; when inquiry void.
  (1) Under the direction of the court, the clerk shall draw names at random from the names of jurors in attendance upon the court until...
• 132.030   Challenge of juror prohibited; when juror may be excused.
  Neither the grand jury panel nor any individual juror may be challenged. A judge of the court or clerk of court, as defined in ORS...
• 132.040   [Repealed by 1973 c.836 §358]
• 132.050   Foreman; alternate.
  The court shall appoint a foreman and an alternate foreman of the grand jury from the persons chosen to constitute that body. The alternate foreman...
• 132.060   Oath or affirmation of jurors.
  (1) Before the members of the grand jury enter upon the discharge of their duties, the following oath must be administered to them by or...
• 132.070   Charge of court.
  When the grand jury is formed, the court shall charge it and give it such information as the court deems proper concerning the nature of...
• 132.080   Clerk.
  The members of the grand jury shall appoint one of their number as clerk. The clerk shall keep minutes of their proceedings (except the votes...
• 132.090   Presence of persons at sittings or deliberations of jury; interpreters.
  (1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, no person other than the district attorney or a witness actually under examination...
• 132.100   Oath to witness before grand jury.
  The foreman of the grand jury or, in the absence of the foreman, any other grand juror shall administer an oath to any witness appearing...
• 132.110   When juror discharged; replacement; proceeding with lesser number.
  After the formation of the grand jury and before it is discharged, the court may: (1) Discharge a grand juror who: (a) Becomes sick, is...
• 132.120   Jury service term; continuation.
  When the jury service term is completed the grand jury must be discharged by the court; but the judge may, by an order made either...
• 132.130   [Repealed by 1973 c.836 §358]
• 132.210   Immunity of jurors as to official conduct.
  A grand juror cannot be questioned for anything the grand juror says or any vote the grand juror gives, while acting as such, relative to...
• 132.220   Disclosure by juror of testimony of witness examined by jury.
  A member of a grand jury may be required by any court to disclose: (1) The testimony of a witness examined before the grand jury,...
• 132.310   Inquiry into crimes; presentation to court.
  The grand jury shall retire into a private room and may inquire into crimes committed or triable in the county and present them to the...
• 132.320   Consideration of evidence.
  (1) Except as provided in subsections (2) to (10) of this section, in the investigation of a charge for the purpose of indictment, the grand...
• 132.330   Submission of indictment by district attorney.
  The district attorney may submit an indictment to the grand jury in any case when the district attorney has good reason to believe that a...
• 132.340   Duties of district attorney for jury.
  The district attorney, when required by the grand jury, must prepare indictments or presentments for it and attend its sittings to advise it in relation...
• 132.350   Juror’s knowledge of an offense; action thereon.
  (1) If a grand juror knows or has reason to believe that a crime which is triable in the county has been committed, the grand...
• 132.360   Number of jurors required to concur.
  A grand jury may indict or present facts to the court for instruction as provided in ORS 132.370, with the concurrence of five of its...
• 132.370   Presentment of facts to court for instruction as to law.
  (1) When the grand jury is in doubt whether the facts, as shown by the evidence before it, constitute a crime in law or whether...
• 132.380   Whom the grand jury may indict.
  The grand jury may indict a person for a crime when it believes the person guilty thereof, whether such person has been held to answer...
• 132.390   When the grand jury may indict.
  The grand jury may find an indictment when all the evidence before it, taken together, is such as in its judgment would, if unexplained or...
• 132.400   Indorsement of indictment as “a true bill.”
  An indictment, when found, shall be indorsed “a true bill,” and such indorsement signed by the foreman of the jury.
• 132.410   Finding of indictment; filing; inspection.
  An indictment, when found and indorsed, as provided in ORS 132.400 and 132.580, shall be filed with the clerk of the court, in whose office...
• 132.420   Disclosure relative to indictment not subject to inspection.
  No grand juror, reporter or other person except the district attorney or a peace officer in the exercise of duties in effecting an arrest shall...
• 132.430   Finding against indictment; indorsement “not a true bill.”
  (1) When a person has been held to answer a criminal charge and the indictment in relation thereto is not found “a true bill,” it...
• 132.440   Inquiry into conditions in correctional and youth correction facilities.
  (1) At least once yearly, a grand jury shall inquire into the condition and management of every correctional facility and youth correction facility as defined...
• 132.510   Forms and sufficiency of pleadings.
  The forms of pleading, and the rules by which the sufficiency of pleadings is to be determined, are those prescribed by the statutes relating to...
• 132.520   [Repealed by 1973 c.836 §358]
• 132.530   [Repealed by 1973 c.836 §358]
• 132.540   Matters indictment must import; previous conviction not to be alleged; exception; use of statutory language.
  (1) The indictment is sufficient if it can be understood therefrom that: (a) The defendant is named, or if the name of the defendant cannot...
• 132.550   Content.
  The indictment shall contain substantially the following: (1) The name of the circuit court in which it is filed; (2) The title of the action;...
• 132.557   Indictment must contain subcategory facts under certain circumstances.
  (1) When a person is charged with a crime committed on or after November 1, 1989, that includes subcategories under the rules of the Oregon...
• 132.560   Joinder of counts and charges; consolidation of charging instruments.
  (1) A charging instrument must charge but one offense, and in one form only, except that: (a) Where the offense may be committed by the...
• 132.570   [Renumbered 135.713]
• 132.580   Names of grand jury witnesses on indictment; effect of failure to include; procedure to remedy failure.
  (1) When an indictment is found, the names of the witnesses examined before the grand jury that returned the indictment, either by testimony in the...
• 132.585   [Repealed by 1959 c.426 §1]
• 132.586   Pleading domestic violence in accusatory instrument.
  (1) As used in this section, “domestic violence” has the meaning given that term in ORS 135.230. (2) When a crime involves domestic violence, the...
• 132.590   [Renumbered 135.715]
• 132.610   [Renumbered 135.717]
• 132.620   [Renumbered 135.720]
• 132.630   [Renumbered 135.725]
• 132.640   [Renumbered 135.727]
• 132.650   [Repealed by 1973 c.836 §358]
• 132.660   [Renumbered 135.730]
• 132.670   [Amended by 1971 c.743 §319; renumbered 135.733]
• 132.680   [Renumbered 135.735]
• 132.690   [Amended by 1971 c.743 §320; renumbered 135.737]
• 132.710   [Renumbered 135.740]
• 132.720   [Renumbered 135.743]
• 132.990   Premature inspection or disclosure of contents of indictment.
  Violation of ORS 132.420 or the prohibitions of ORS 132.410 is punishable as contempt. _______________

Last modified: August 7, 2008