The grand jury.
An indictment is, essentially, to be formally accused of something. An example sentence is: The indictment was absolutely humiliating for him.
accuse hold responsible, denounce, indict, impeach, incriminate, impute, attribute to, credit to, assign to
indict in a sentence
A true bill.
"The grand jury voted to indict him on the charge of capital murder." "The candidate sought to indict gun ownership as the cause of criminal violence." "The district attorney can indict you on the evidence he already has."
The word "indict" means to formally charge or accuse someone with a serious crime. Some synonyms for the word "indict" are "incriminate", "arraign", and "impeach".
In comes before indict in alphabetical order.
Grand Jury proceedings and deliberations are secret and are not revealed. Basically - a group of ordinary citizens are empanelled - an attorney from the prosecutors office presents to them the results of a law enforcement investigation, including (but not limited to) verbal testimony by investigating officers, circumstances, events, and the name of the identified suspect, and the grand jury decides whether sufficient cause exists to charge the suspect with the crime and bind them over for prosecution.
When the case goes to the GRAND JURY that is when they look at everything and decide whether or not they have a case.If they do not have a substantial amount of evidence against the defendent the case will then be dismissed. So they refuse to indict...there is no case, it is dismissed.
The court has enough evidence to indict you for robbery. Pronounced in-dEYEt. Means to charge or accuse.
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