In re Application of Kathleen G. Kane, Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Requesting an Order Directing That an Additional Multicounty Investigating Grand Jury Having Statewide Jurisdiction Be Convened

Summary

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania granted the Attorney General’s application to convene the Thirty-Ninth Statewide Investigating Grand Jury. The order designated a supervising judge, established Dauphin County as the proceedings’ location, provided for juror selection, and set the grand jury’s initial term at no more than eighteen months, subject to a possible extension of up to six months.

Holdings

1. The application was granted, and the Thirty-Ninth Statewide Investigating Grand Jury was authorized to be convened.
2. The court designated Judge J. Wesley Oler, Jr. as supervising judge, designated Dauphin County as the proceedings' location, prescribed the counties and procedures for selecting jurors, and limited the grand jury's term to eighteen months, subject to a possible extension not exceeding twenty-four months from impanelment.

Questions Presented

1. Whether the Attorney General's application to convene an additional multicounty investigating grand jury with statewide jurisdiction should be granted.
2. What supervisory, geographic, jury-selection, location, and term provisions should govern the Thirty-Ninth Statewide Investigating Grand Jury.

Disposition

approved