Episode 4 of 5

Grand Jury Decline

When
March 1859
Where
Provo
Part of
Mountain Meadows massacre

Judge John Cradlebaugh convened a grand jury in Provo in March 1859, which declined to issue indictments.

In March 1859, Judge John Cradlebaugh, a federal judge brought into the territory after the Utah War, convened a grand jury in Provo concerning the massacre, but the jury declined any indictments.

Sources

  1. Mountain Meadows Massacre Wikipedia

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