Title: IN RE: APPLICATION OF JOSH SHAPIRO, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, REQUESTING AN ORDER DIRECTING THAT AN ADDITIONAL MULTICOUNTY INVESTIGATING GRAND JURY HAVING STATEWIDE JURISDICTION BE CONVENED (miscellaneous)

State: pennsylvania

Issuer: Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Document:

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
WESTERN DISTRICT

IN RE: APPLICATION OF JOSH No, 43 WM 2019
‘SHAPIRO, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF

THE COMMONWEALTH OF

PENNSYLVANIA, REQUESTING AN

ORDER DIRECTING THAT AN

ADDITIONAL MULTICOUNTY

INVESTIGATING GRAND JURY HAVING

STATEWIDE JURISDICTION BE

CONVENED

ORDER

‘AND NOW, this 23" day of December, 2020, upon notification that the Honorable
Jeffrey A. Manning, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Fith Judicial District, Allegheny
County, Pennsyivania, is unavailable to continue serving in his role as Supervising Judge
of the Forty-Sixth Statewide Investigating Grand Jury, the order of June 28, 2019, is
AMENDED as follows:

1. The Honorable Anthony M. Mariani, Judge of the Court Common Pleas, Fifth
Judicial District, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, is appointed Supervising Judge of the
Forty-Sixth Statewide Investigating Grand Jury, effective December 24, 2020.

2, Upon Judge Mariani assuming the role of Supervising Judge, Judge Manning's

service as Supervising Judge shall cease.

 

3. Upon Judge Mariani assuming the role of Supervising Judge, all pending and
prospective applications and motions relating to the work of the Forty-Sixth Statewide

Investigating Grand Jury—including motions for disclosure of grand jury transcripts and

 

‘evidence—shall be presented to him. With respect to investigations, presentments,

ports, and all other proper activities of the Forty-Sixth Statewide Investigating Grand

 

Jury, Judge Mariani, as Supervising Judge, shall have jurisdiction over all countie
throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Judge Mariani may temporarily
designate another jurist who has been appointed by this Court as the Supervising Judge
Cf @ multicounty investigating grand jury having statewide jurisdiction to serve as Acting
‘Supervising Judge of the Forty-Sixth Statewide Investigating Grand Jury when Judge
Mariani is absent or otherwise unavailable.

4, Judge Mariani shail maintain control of transcripts and evidence, as provided by
Rule 229 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, including determining the
‘manner and location of the storage of transcripts. Judge Mariani shall control disclosure
of matters occurring before the Forty-Sixth Statewide Investigating Grand Juy, as
provided by 42 Pa.C.S. § 4549.

5. Judge Mariani shall have the same duties and powers relating to maintaining
grand jury secrecy with respect to each expired mutticounty investigating grand jury
having statewide jurisdiction that had been convened in Allegheny County or any other
county identified in Rule 241(C)(4) of the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure,

6. In alll other respects, the order of June 28, 2019, shall remain in full force and
effect as originally issued.

homie
THOMAS G. SAYLOR
Chief Justice of Pennsylvania

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