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IN RE REPORT OF GRAND JURY OF CARROLL CTY.

No. 1007, September Term, 1977.

39 Md. App. 472 (1978)

386 A.2d 1246

IN RE REPORT OF GRAND JURY OF CARROLL COUNTY, NOVEMBER TERM, 1976.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 8, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacob Yosef Miliman for appellant.

Deborah K. Handel, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, and Thomas E. Hickman, State's Attorney for Carroll County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before THOMPSON, DAVIDSON and MASON, JJ.

THOMPSON, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this appeal we are asked to determine whether a grand jury has the power to report publicly specific instances of non-criminal misconduct of public officials. We determine that they do not and shall reverse.

The grand jury impaneled in the Circuit Court for Carroll County for its 1976 November Term included the following in its report:

"The Grand Jury...

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