Indictment presentations are made to a Grand Jury. The physical location of a Grand Jury can be anywhere but usually they occupy chambers in a county,state, or federal courthouse, depending on the jurisdiction of that particular jury.
which congressional body indictments of accused federal officials, like president?
Sealed indictiments are held until such time as the prosecutor decides the time is right to arrest everybody named in the indictments. The reason they are sealed is so that the arrest of one or two individuals does not alert the rest of their crime confederates that a crackdown is in progress. Th eobject is to arrest them ALL in one massive operation. To that end, secrecy is imperative.
The Grand jury is the jury that issues indictments in federal felony cases. Grand juries are only used in the United States.
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To find federal indictments in Missouri, you can visit the website of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, where many federal cases are filed. Additionally, the PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) system allows you to search for court records, including indictments. Local news sources may also report on significant federal indictments. For comprehensive searches, you may also contact the clerk's office of the district court directly.
An indictment isn't a 'charge" until it is handed down and served on you. So-called "secret" indictments are usually held until ALL parties that the Grand Jury is investigating are presented and them and all the indictments are handed down at once so that law enforcement can do a massive clean sweep and catch and arrest all of the suspects involved. If they indicted them piecemeal it might tend to warn the rest of the group that they were under suspcicion, or being investigated, and drive them undeground.
PETIT jury . . . as opposed to a GRAND jury which hands down indictments.
Grand juries do not decide guilt or innocence. They determine if enough evidence exists to formally charge you with a crime. There are two types of formal charges: presentments and indictments. For all practical purposes nowadays only indictments are produced by grand juries.
The FBI does not issue indictments. The FBI investigates crimes and turns evidence over to magistrates and / or grand juries. Those legal authorities issue indictments. Some indictments are public and some are sealed. The public ones are usually in press releases. The sealed ones are secret, often so the suspect does not know of the charges or so evidence won't be destroyed. The best way to find out about this is to NOT do it yourself. Hire a professional background checking firm.
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.
Roosevelt obtained indictments and i can't remember the nickname from it.
Pierre Louis Cornu has written: 'L' inculpation' -- subject(s): Indictments