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ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor
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S.B. 796
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A COURT REPORTER WHOM A JURY JUDGE ORDERS UNDER § 2-503 OF THIS
ARTICLE TO RECORD TESTIMONY BEFORE A GRAND JURY MAY BE PRESENT AT ITS
SESSIONS.
(B) INTERPRETER
AN INTERPRETER WHOM A JURY JUDGE APPROVES MAY BE PRESENT AT A
GRAND JURY SESSION AS NEEDED TO PROVIDE SERVICES AS AN INTERPRETER
(C) STATE'S ATTORNEY FOR BALTIMORE CITY OR ASSISTANT.
(1) THIS SUBSECTION APPLIES ONLY TO A GRAND JURY FOR BALTIMORE
CITY.
(2) THE STATE'S ATTORNEY FOR BALTIMORE CITY OR AN ASSISTANT
STATE'S ATTORNEY FOR BALTIMORE CITY:
(I) AT THE REQUEST OF A GRAND JURY, MAY ATTEND ANY OF ITS
SESSIONS; BUT
(II) MAY NOT BE PRESENT WHEN THE GRAND JURY VOTES ON AN
INDICTMENT OR PRESENTMENT.
COMMITTEE NOTE: Subsection (a) of this section is new language derived
from former CJ § 2-503(c) and the former first clause of revised Public
Local Laws, Art. 16 [Montgomery County], § 12-23.
Subsection (b) of this section is new and added for completeness.
Subsection (c) of this section is new language derived without substantive
change from the former third sentence of Public Local Laws, Art. 4
[Baltimore City], § 7-7, as it related to the State's Attorney and
assistants. The codification of the Baltimore City provision here is merely
for convenience and is not intended, by reenactment of a single provision,
to alter any law with regard to presence at grand juries in other counties.
In subsection (a) of this section, reference to a reporter "order[ed]" to take
testimony is substituted for the former references to being "appointed
under this section" and "duly appointed and qualified as herein provided",
to conform to revised CJ § 2-503, which contemplates the designation of a
grand jury reporter from among court reporters regularly employed by or
under contract with a circuit court, instead of appointment by a jury judge.
As to a jury judge, see revised CJ § 8-204.
The first clause of the former Public Local Laws, Art. 1 [Allegany City], §
32-6G, which allowed a reporter to attend "upon and at the special request
of the circuit court for Allegany and Garrett counties", the former third
sentence of Public Local Laws, Art. 4 [Baltimore City], § 7-7, which
allowed a reporter to attend but "not... when the grand jury votes on any
presentment or indictment", and former Public Local Laws, Art. 14
[Howard County], § 7.303, as it allowed a reporter to attend "[a]t every
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