Case Title: In Re: 41st Statewide Investigating Grand Jury (miscellaneous)

Citation: 

Docket Number: 174 MM 2016

State: pennsylvania

Court: Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Date: 2016-12-09T00:00:00Z

Document:
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
MIDDLE DISTRICT

IN RE: APPLICATION OF BRUCE R. No. 174 MM 2016
BEEMER, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF

‘THE COMMONWEALTH OF

PENNSYLVANIA, REQUESTING AN

ORDER DIRECTING THAT AN

ADDITIONAL MULTICOUNTY

INVESTIGATING GRAND JURY HAVING :

STATEWIDE JURISDICTION BE

CONVENED

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PER CURIAM

AND NOW, this 9th day of December, 2016, upon consideration of the
Application of Bruce R. Beemer, Attomey General of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, and it appearing to the Court that the granting of the Application is
appropriate under the Investigating Grand Jury Act, 42 Pa.C.S. §§ 4541 et seq, itis
hereby ORDERED as follows:

1. The Attorney General's Application requesting an Order directing that an
‘additional multicounty investigating grand jury having statewide jurisdiction (‘Forty-First
Statewide Investigating Grand Jury’) be convened is hereby GRANTED.

2. The Honorable Anthony A. Sarcione, Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas, Fifteenth Judicial District, Chester County, Pennsylvania, is hereby designated
as Supervising Judge of the Forty-First Statewide Investigating Grand Jury. All
applications and motions relating to the work of the Forty-First Statewide Investigating
Grand Jury—including motions for disclosure of grand jury transcripts and evidence—

shall be presented to the Supervising Judge. With respect to investigations,
resentments, reports, and all other proper activities of the Forty-First Statewide
Investigating Grand Jury, Judge Sarcione, as Supervising Judge, shall have jurisdiction
‘over all counties throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Judge Sarcione may
temporary designate another jurist who has been appointed by this Court as the
‘Supervising Judge of a muiticounty investigating grand jury having statewide jurisdiction
to serve as Acting Supervising Judge of the Forty-First Statewide Investigating Grand
Jury when Judge Sarcione is absent or otherwise unavailable.

3. Montgomery County is designated as the location for the Forty-First
Statewide Investigating Grand Jury proceedings

4. The Court Administrator of Pennsyivania is directed to draw six counties at
random from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania pursuant to the provisions of Rule
241(A)(1) and 241(C)(2) of the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, and these six
counties, plus Montgomery, shall together supply jurors for the Forty-First Statewide

 

ting Grand Jury.

 

5. The Court Administrator of Pennsylvania is directed to obtain the names
and addresses of persons residing in the aforesaid counties who are eligible by law to
serve as grand jurors pursuant to the provisions of Rule 241(A)(2) of the Pennsylvania
Rules of Criminal Procedure.

6. The total of such names of prospective jurors to be collected shall be two
hundred, of which fity shall be selected at random and summoned by the Court
‘Administrator of Pennsylvania to Montgomery County. The Supervising Judge shall
impane! the Forty-First Statewide Investigating Grand Jury from this panel of fifty

Prospective jurors. if it becomes necessary, additional prospective jurors shall be

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‘summoned by the Supervising Judge from among the remaining one hundred fifty
prospective jurors.

7. The Forty-First Statewide Investigating Grand Jury will remain in session
for not more than eighteen months following the date that itis impaneled by the
Supervising Judge.

8 The Attomey General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or his
designee in charge of the Forty-First Statewide Investigating Grand Jury, may apply, if
necessary, to the Supervising Judge for an extension of the term of the Forty-First
Statewide Investigating Grand Jury for an additional period of up to six months, if, at the
end of its original term, the Investigating Grand Jury determines by majority vote that it
has not completed its business, The Forty-First Statewide Investigating Grand Jury's
term, including any extension thereof, shall not exceed twenty-four months from the
date it was originally impaneled by the Supervising Judge

8. In addition to maintaining control of transcripts and evidence as provided
by Rule 229 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure and controling disclosure
of matters occurring before the Forty-First Statewide Investigating Grand Jury as
provided by 42 Pa.C.S. §4549, the Supervising Judge shall have the same duties and
powers relating to maintaining grand jury secrecy with respect to each prior Statewide
Investigating Grand Jury convened in Montgomery County or any other county identified
in Rule 241(0)(2)

 

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