                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

RETURNING A &#8220;TRUE BILL&#8221; OF INDICTMENT; JURISDICTION TO BE SET OUT
(§ 19.2-215.8)

In order to return a &#8220;true bill&#8221; of indictment, a majority, but in
no instance less than five, of the multi-jurisdiction grand jurors must concur
in that finding. A multi-jurisdiction grand jury may return a &#8220;true
bill&#8221; of indictment upon the testimony of, or evidence produced by, any
witness who was called by the grand jury, upon evidence presented to it by
special counsel, or upon evidence sent to it by the presiding judge.
		Every &#8220;true bill&#8221; of indictment returned by a multi-jurisdiction
grand jury shall state in which jurisdiction or jurisdictions the offense is
alleged to have occurred. Thereafter, when venue is proper in more than one
jurisdiction, the presiding judge who directed the grand jury proceeding shall
elect in which one of the jurisdictions named in the indictment the indictment
is to be prosecuted.

HISTORY: 1983, c. 543.