 A lot of people ask me, what is a grand jury in Arizona? Well, in Arizona, there's two ways to find probable cause on a charge. Normally what happens is the prosecutor will file a pleading and send a complaint, and then the person receives it, they go into court, and there's a preliminary hearing in which the judge determines whether there's probable cause. Now, grand jury is different. That usually involves more serious cases. What happens is the prosecutor will convene a secret grand jury without anyone's knowledge, and the main officer will come in and then basically read the police reports and hear say in everyone's evidence, and the grand jurors will sit there and they'll vote on whether they think there's probable cause to charge somebody and probable cause not to charge somebody. Now, what's interesting is there has to be a minimum of 11 grand jurors to form a quorum. If there's less than 11, they can't vote that day. And of the 11, only nine of them have to say, we find there's probable cause. Normally there's about 15 people on a standard grand jury. Now, what will happen when we represent people pre-charge before they're charged? Many times we'll contact the prosecutor with what's known as a trebus letter or a Bashir letter. Those are case names in Arizona, and we'll tell them, hey, we want you to submit this evidence to the grand jury, which is exculpatory. It shows that our client didn't do this, and our client would like to show up and make a statement directly to the grand jury should they choose to hear from them. Once we send that letter, the prosecutor is obligated not only to hand over our documents to the grand jury, but to tell them Mr. So-and-so wishes to testify. And many times they will then contact us, we will bring our client in, and after they hear our client testify, they choose not to indict. We've actually had some good successes at this level. If you are a person who's in the pre-charge level, and you're worried that you may be charged, then you have to fear that a grand jury could happen. You need to contact us immediately, and we'll help you out.