Is the grand jury an independent body or subordinate to the court?
"New York", United States of America
The following excerpt is from Wood v. Hughes, 212 N.Y.S.2d 33, 9 N.Y.2d 144 (N.Y. 1961):
The grand jury is not a creature or subordinate of the court but 'insofar as its jurisdiction is concerned, it is an independent body' to which the law has afforded 'the widest possible latitude in the exercise of (its) powers' and has 'insisted that in the absence of a clear constitutional or legislative expression they may not be curtailed' (People v. Stern, 3 N.Y.2d 658, 661, 662, 171 N.Y.S.2d 265, 268). To deny the grand jury's
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