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Filing a Criminal Complaint

There are only three ways a court can hear a criminal complaint:

  1. One or more of the people sign a sworn affidavit that they have been injured;
  2. A prosecutor, on behalf of the government brings an accusation before the Grand Jury and the Grand Jury either indicts or does nothing
  3. The Grand Jury by its “own will”, can investigate merely on suspicion that the law is being violated, or even because it wants assurance that it is not, and if it finds wrongdoing it can present it to the court and it must go to trial no one can second guess the Grand Jury, unless the Grand Jury’s actions violate another’s unalienable rights.