If it does not, the person is not required to plead to a criminal charge and there is no trial. If the majority of the jury believes a person committed a crime, it returns with an indictment. Then the jury votes in secret on whether enough evidence exists to charge someone with a crime.
A district attorney shows the grand jury evidence and asks jurors to consider certain charges, David Weinstein, a former federal and state prosecutor, told USA TODAY. Usually made up of 16 to 23 people, grand juries meet in private as an investigative body independent of a prosecuting attorney or judge. Grand juries decide whether a prosecutor’s evidence provides probable cause to issue an indictment, according to Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute.
Trump has denied the affair and any wrongdoing, calling the investigation a politically motivated "witch hunt" and urging his supporters to protest his treatment. Trump lawyer Joseph Tacopina called the indictment a "political prosecution" and said Trump's team would fight it in court.
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