What if I end up serving on a grand jury?

What if I end up serving on a grand jury?

Sometimes instead of being called to serve on a regular petit jury in a criminal case you may be called to serve on a grand jury which has a different function. There'll be more people on the grand jury, for one thing, and you're called in to look at evidence and look at allegations that are going to be presented by a prosecuting attorney or state's attorney general to decide whether or not there is an adequate reason to believe, if there's a reasonable evidence and reasonable suspicion that someone may have committed a crime, and should therefore go to trial. So you're not judging guilt or innocence, you're just saying, "This looks like a valid case".