Professor Chin Comments on Grand Jury System for Capital Public Radio
Professor Gabriel "Jack" Chin discussed the grand jury system in an interview on National Public Radio affiliate KXJZ's news program Insight. Chin talked about the history and role of grand juries, and said that despite recent high-profile cases in which grand juries failed to indict law enforcement officers in the killings of unarmed civilians, the system is not necessarily dysfunctional.
"I'm not sure we have a problem with grand juries in the United States," he said. "I think there are certainly ways in which the system could be improved, but there are tens of thousands of grand jury indictments every month, and the fact that we see a couple that might have gone wrong I don't think proves that there's a systematic problem."
Gabriel "Jack" Chin, who joined the King Hall faculty in 2011, is a prolific and much-cited criminal and immigration law scholar whose work has addressed many of the most pressing social issues of our time.