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to a question originally asked and that is whether there

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was any evidence before the Personal Rights Committee

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which would justify the necessity for including the right

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to grand jury indictment in the Constitution.

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DELEGATE WEIDEMEYER: Yes, there was, and I

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think that was on one of the days when you were out on

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some due process work or something, and we had State's

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Attorney Charles Moylan and we had him there at length

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going over this matter.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Bothe.

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DELEGATE BOTHE: You are aware, I trust, that

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a large number of petty offenders who may or may not

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be charged with infamous crimes, since that word is

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uncertain, are proceeded against by waive of information in

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the state?

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DELEGATE WEIDEMEYER: The minor ones are preceded

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by presentment and even some of the major crimes are preceded

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by presentment, especially when they waive them.

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DELEGATE BOTHE: Have you any authority for your

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statement that the rights, if set out as proposed in

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Section 11, could be waived by a person accused of