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indictment

[ in-dahyt-muhnt ]

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noun

an act of indicting.
Law. a formal accusation initiating a criminal case, presented by a grand jury and usually required for felonies and other serious crimes.
any charge, accusation, serious criticism, or cause for blame.
the state of being indicted.

indictment

/ ɪnˈdaɪtmənt /

a formal written charge of crime formerly referred to and presented on oath by a grand jury
any formal accusation of crime
a charge of crime brought at the instance of the Lord Advocate
the act of indicting or the state of being indicted

indictment

A formal accusation of a crime, presented to the accused party after the charges have been considered by a grand jury .

First recorded in 1275–1325; indict + -ment; replacing Middle English enditement, from Anglo-French ( indite )

The 2001 grand jury indictment named 21 suspects as being involved in the U.S. embassy bombings, including Osama bin Laden.

Good for her—but what a shameful indictment of Planet Fashion.

According to the indictment, it is part of a network of Latino gangs controlled by La Eme.

The cry that rose up into the night signaled a moral indictment no matter what the grand jury had said.

The result is that Dingle now faces a 23-count federal indictment.

The sharpened faculties have something of a lawyer's quickness in detecting a flaw in the indictment.

You could have cleared me easily enough by dropping the case, or making your investigations before ever an indictment was issued.

The obvious resource, therefore, was to obtain a writ of certiorari removing our indictment to the superior court.

Manin's indictment aimed equally at the use of the knife in popular insurrections.

They have lost the right of being previously furnished with a copy of the indictment, and a list of the government witnesses.

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