Dixie County grand jury foreman arrested for reporting a crime.

Douglas, you are obfuscating the truth and the skirting the facts you yourself represented. I have proven them to you to be false and you scurry down another tunnel. I am not certain if truth is what you are seeking but desire to only defame the NLA.

I can't attest to what transpired with Terry's case since I was not involved but your reference to a "self-impaneled grand jury" is vague at best without an explanation as to how you define the term. However, if you are implying a group of People merely seat themselves as a jury without going through a process, then your claim couldn't be farther off the mark.

The process would be similar, but not necessarily the same as a jury summoned to a Nisi Prius (Statue Law Court). If investigators (Administrators) determine accusations in an Affidavit are in fact true and they cannot get remedy from the accused, then the Administrators would file the necessary Paper work with the Court for a Judge to call for a Jury. People would be called from a voter registration list. Those selected would be on the Jury.

As to your question when the last Common Law Grand Jury was sworn and your assertion there is no evidence one was ever sworn in can never be answered. One distinct difference between a Nisi Prius Grand Jury and a Common Law Grand Jury is that the former is instructed by the Judge and or Prosecutor as to what matters of Law and Fact they can and cannot consider while the latter determines for themselves what matters of Law and Fact they will consider. Neither the Judge nor the Prosecuting Attorney has any input. In other words, the Government controls a Nisi Prius Jury but not so with a Common Law Jury. In order to answer your question one would need to pour over records throughout the jurisdiction of the U.S., examining in detail whether a Grand Jury gave a verdict unencumbered by instructions from a Judge or Prosecuting Attorney or the verdict was influenced by them. That research would be next to impossible if not impossible to conduct in order to confirm which type of Grand Jury was convened. Moreover, Grand Juries do not operate in Public, making the task of finding such information even more difficult. However, it would also be next to impossible if not impossible to find in any record when the first Nisi Prius Grand Jury was convened but obviously that doesn't mean they don't exist.

It could very well be Common Law Grand Juries at one time operated, especially since the U.S. Constitution is premised on the Common Law and that it is an unalienable right in the Bill of Rights and is expressly written in Amendment VII and therefore is reserved to the People, not the Legislative, Executive or Judicial branches in the Federal Government. SCOTUS Justice Antonin Scalia reiterated that point in the case of Williams v United States. To quote Scalia; "It is in effect a fourth branch of Government governed administered directly by and on behalf of the American People and its authority emanates from the Bill of Rights". It defies logic a Supreme Court Justice would go to such length to reiterate with detailed description how the Common Law Grand Jury operates independently of Government if the CLGJ never existed prior to the decision.