18 U.S.C. § 3331

Summoning and term

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(a) In addition to such other grand juries as shall be called from time to time, each district court which is located in a judicial district containing more than four million inhabitants or in which the Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney General, the Associate Attorney General, or any designated Assistant Attorney General, certifies in writing to the chief judge of the district that in his judgment a special grand jury is necessary because of criminal activity in the district shall order a special grand jury to be summoned at least once in each period of eighteen months unless another special grand jury is then serving. The grand jury shall serve for a term of eighteen months unless an order for its discharge is entered earlier by the court upon a determination of the grand jury by majority vote that its business has been completed. If, at the end of such term or any extension thereof, the district court determines the business of the grand jury has not been completed, the court may enter an order extending such term for an additional period of six months. No special grand jury term so extended shall exceed thirty-six months, except as provided in subsection (e) of section 3333 of this chapter.(b) If a district court within any judicial circuit fails to extend the term of a special grand jury or enters an order for the discharge of such grand jury before such grand jury determines that it has completed its business, the grand jury, upon the affirmative vote of a majority of its members, may apply to the chief judge of the circuit for an order for the continuance of the term of the grand jury. Upon the making of such an application by the grand jury, the term thereof shall continue until the entry upon such application by the chief judge of the circuit of an appropriate order. No special grand jury term so extended shall exceed thirty-six months, except as provided in subsection (e) of section 3333 of this chapter.(Added Pub. L. 91–452, title I, § 101(a), Oct. 15, 1970, 84 Stat. 923; amended Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, § 7020(d), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4396.)Editorial NotesAmendments

1988—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100–690 inserted “, the Associate Attorney General” after “Deputy Attorney General”.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 66 cases (3 in the last 5 years), 1972–2024 · leading case: United States v. Hon. Judge Almeric L. Christian, 660 F.2d 892 (3rd Cir. 1981).
United States v. Hon. Judge Almeric L. Christian, 660 F.2d 892 (3rd Cir. 1981). · cites it 7× “The United States urged that the court’s authority to convene the grand jury derived either from Rule 6(a) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure or from 18 U.S.C. § 3331 (a). The district court, reasoning that it lacked the requisite authority, entered an order on December…”
Elliot Carlson v. United States, 837 F.3d 753 (7th Cir. 2016). · cites it 2× “; see also 18 U.S.C. § 3331 (district court’s power to summon grand jury); FED.”
United States v. George Stofsky, 527 F.2d 237 (2d Cir. 1975). · cites it 3× “, and therefore could not have been extended pursuant to the terms of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, 18 U.S.C. § 3331 , beyond the 18-month term to which a Rule 6 grand jury is limited.”
North v. United States Dep't of Just., 774 F. Supp. 2d 217 (D.D.C. 2011). · cites it 2× “6 or 18 U.S.C. § 3331”; and (3) “any and all documents which pertain to any extensions of time for the grand jury.”
Robert Hawthorne, Inc. v. Dir. of Internal Revenue, 406 F. Supp. 1098 (E.D. Pa. 1976). · cites it 2× “6(a); 18 U.S.C. § 3331 , they are ‘basically a law enforcement agency.”
United States v. Taylor, 841 F.2d 1300 (7th Cir. 1988). · cites it 8× “The government argues that the omission of a written extension order is not error under 18 U.S.C. § 3331 , 1 the statute regulating the summoning and term of special grand juries.”
United States v. Bernhard Fein, 504 F.2d 1170 (2d Cir. 1974). · cites it 4× “On August 30, Judge Mishler signed an order submitted to him by the Assistant extending the term of the grand jury for an additional six months upon the authority of 18 U.S.C. § 3331 . On September 26, 1972, nine days after the expiration of the original 18-month life of the…”
United States v. Lytle, 658 F. Supp. 1321 (N.D. Ill. 1987). · cites it 6× “Each party refers to Chief Judge McGarr’s May 1985 order as though it were one contemplated by 18 U.S.C. § 3331 (b). 3 Yet that statute says (emphasis added): (b) If a district court within any judicial circuit fails to extend the term of a special grand jury or enters an order…”
In Re United States, 441 F.3d 44 (1st Cir. 2006). “For instance, the term of a special grand jury, as distinct from a regular grand jury constituted under Rule 6, may be extend *53 ed by court order for up to thirty-six months, see 18 U.S.C. § 3331 (a), and even longer in certain circumstances, see id.”
United States v. Dionisio, 410 U.S. 1 (1973). “d or reasonably appear to be unlikely to succeed if tried or to be too dangerous; (d) there is probable cause for belief that the facilities from which, or the place where, the wire or oral communications are to be intercepted are being used, or are about to be used, in…”
Gage v. Warren Twp. Comm. & Plan. Bd. Members, 463 F. App'x 68 (3rd Cir. 2012). · cites it 2× “He has also submitted a motion for empanelment of a special grand jury pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3331 . We will summarily affirm.”
Nelson Morales v. U.S. Dist. Court for the S. Dist. of Florida, 580 F. App'x 881 (11th Cir. 2014). · cites it 2× “See 18 U.S.C. § 3331 (a) ("[E]ach district court which is located in a judicial district containing more than four million inhabitants .”
— 18 U.S.C. § 3331(a) — 1 case
United States v. Chiarizio, 388 F. Supp. 858 (D. Conn. 1975).
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