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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="8-416" title_number="8" title_name="Juries and Jurors" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Juries">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A court reporter ordered to take testimony given before a grand jury shall take and transcribe the testimony.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A court reporter shall provide, as requested, a transcript of testimony given before a grand jury for a county to the grand jury and State’s Attorney for the county.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Each transcript of testimony given before a grand jury for a county shall be kept in the custody of the State’s Attorney for the county.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Unless the circuit court for a county orders otherwise after hearing the State’s Attorney for the county, neither the original nor a copy of the transcript of testimony given before a grand jury may be taken from the office of the State’s Attorney for the county, other than for use of the grand jury or for production in court.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>On written order of the circuit court for a county, granted on written motion of the State’s Attorney for the county, the State’s Attorney may have the notes as to, and transcript of, grand jury testimony destroyed.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Except on written order of the circuit court for a county after hearing the State’s Attorney for the county:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A record of testimony given before a grand jury is for the exclusive use and benefit of the grand jury and the State’s Attorney; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A court reporter may not:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Allow any other governmental unit or person to read or have a copy of all or any part of the record; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Disclose wholly or partly the character of the contents of the record to any other governmental unit or person.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
