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a right to grand jury indictment.

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DELEGATE WEIDEMEYER: I did not say that. I

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said that we do not have the provision of Article 21 of the

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declaration of rights. I said that in our previou-s

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Constitution the only thing that we had was by implication,

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coming out of Article XXI, which said that the Defendant

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should be entitled to be presented with a copy of the

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indictment, and by implication, that meant the indictment

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of the grand jury, and it also can be interpreted to

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man a copy of the presentment.

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DELEGATE BOTHE: Substitution for which we

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made provision that the defendant was not entitled to

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a copy of the charge.

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DELEGATE WEIDEMEYER: Yes, and in that we have

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by implication, too. But we did not want to do away

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with the grand jury indictment, by getting a copy of the

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charqe might mean just the state's attorney's charge.

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We did not want it that way. We wanted the right of

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grand jury indictment in certain cases guaranteed.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Bothe.

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DELEGATE BOTHE: Again I would ask an answer