Are you sure?
Certainly juries at conventional trial do not.
But grand juries perform to different standards. Seems to me I vaguely recall members of a grand jury can make inquiries.
But you are forgetting a grand jury is secret, and before the person of interest has not been charged yet.
The purpose of the grand jury is to absolve the prosecutor from being sued over a weak and questionable prosecution.
So there is no defense present at a grand jury.
Which means the prosecutor can essentially lie and get away with it.
The juries at a trial can't cross examine witnesses, but the defense can.
Problem with a grand jury is that no defense is allowed to be present.
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