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Generally speaking all indictments from a Grand Jury are handed down "unsealed."

It is usually only in exceptional cases (e.g.: multiple defendants for instance) where the indictments are sealed so that law enforcement can take coordinated action to arrest all the indictees at the same time, rather than the news of one or two indictments leak out and allow the remainder to flee.

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It refers to the fact that, for some good and sound legal reason, the identity of the indicted person(s) is being withheld for the time being.

For example: This is usually done in conspiracy-type indictments where more than individual is indicted and law enforcement wants to round all of them up simultaneously.

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