Under what circumstances must instructions be recorded in the minutes of a grand jury?
"New York", United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Kennedy, 127 Misc.2d 712, 487 N.Y.S.2d 662 (N.Y. Cty. Ct. 1985):
Extremely critical and paramount to the cases at bar, the instructions must (emphasis added) be recorded in the minutes, "subject to review by the court so that it may determine whether there has been an impairment of the Grand Jury's integrity and prejudice to the defendant may result." (See People v. Colebut, 86 Misc.2d 729, 733-744, 383 N.Y.S.2d 985,
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