Grand jury; direction to file prosecutor's information and related matters

§ 190.70 Grand jury; direction to file prosecutor's information and

related matters.

1. Except in a case submitted to it pursuant to the provisions of
section 170.25, a grand jury may direct the district attorney to file in
a local criminal court a prosecutor's information charging a person with
an offense other than a felony when (a) the evidence before it is
legally sufficient to establish that such person committed such offense,
and (b) competent and admissible evidence before it provides reasonable
cause to believe that such person committed such offense. In such case,
the grand jury must, through its foreman or acting foreman, file such
direction with the court by which it was impaneled.

2. Such direction must be signed by the foreman or acting foreman.
It must contain a plain and concise statement of the conduct
constituting the offense to be charged, equivalent in content and
precision to the factual statement required to be contained in an
indictment pursuant to subdivision seven of section 200.50. Subject to
the rules prescribed in sections 200.20 and 200.40 governing joinder in
a single indictment of multiple offenses and multiple defendants, such
grand jury direction may, where appropriate, specify multiple offenses
of less than felony grade and multiple defendants, and may direct that
the prospective prosecutor's information charge a single defendant with
multiple offenses, or multiple defendants jointly with either a single
offense or multiple offenses.

3. Upon the filing of such grand jury direction, the court must,
unless such direction is insufficient on its face, issue an order
approving such direction and ordering the district attorney to file such
a prosecutor's information in a designated local criminal court having
trial jurisdiction of the offense or offenses in question.