Federal law Grand Jury clause The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on presentment or indictment of a Gra a Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger Misdemeanors are not presented to a grand jury, and are instead charged by prosecutor's "information." In the United States ar forces, an Article 32 hearing used for a similar purpose