Court Opinion

ID: 9859537
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 21:58:14.559081+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:52:20.489114
License: Public Domain

Concurring Opinion
Hunter, J.
I am of the opinion that the prosecuting attorney in this matter has put the cart before the horse and that by so doing he has used the grand jury investigation as a punitive arm of law enforcement in an effort to influence the juvenile court. This is not to say that there could not be certain situations which might be referred to a grand jury by a juvenile court in the exercise of judicial discretion for the purpose of an investigation preparatory to the filing of an information with said court. In this regard I believe the investigative power of the grand jury could then be utilized in the spirit of the first sentence of the following section of the juvenile act which provides:
“Any person may and any peace officer shall give to the court information in his possession that there is within the county or residing within the county, ... a delinquent child.” Ind. Ann. Stat. § 9-2308 (1968 Supp.).