Crossword clues for indictment
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indictment \In*dict"ment\, n. [Cf. Inditement.]
The act of indicting, or the state of being indicted.
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(Law) The formal statement of an offense, as framed by the prosecuting authority of the State, and found by the grand jury.
Note: To the validity of an indictment a finding by the grand jury is essential, while an information rests only on presentation by the prosecuting authority.
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An accusation in general; a formal accusation.
Bill of indictment. See under Bill.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, endytement "action of accusing," from Anglo-French enditement, from enditer (see indict). Meaning "legal document containing a charge" is from c.1500. Latin spelling restored 17c.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context legal English) An official formal accusation for a criminal offence, or the process by which it is brought to a jury. (from 14th c.) 2 (context legal English) The official legal document outlining the charges concerned. (from 16th c.) 3 (context countable uncountable English) An accusation of wrongdoing; a criticism or condemnation. (from 19th c.)
WordNet
n. a formal document written for a prosecuting attorney charging a person with some offense [syn: bill of indictment]
an accusation of wrongdoing; "the book is an indictment of modern philosophy"
Wikipedia
An indictment , in the common law system, is a formal accusation that a person has committed a crime. In jurisdictions that use the concept of felonies, the most serious criminal offence is a felony; jurisdictions that do not use the concept of felonies often use that of an indictable offence—an offence that requires an indictment.
Historically, in most common law jurisdictions, an indictment was handed up by a grand jury, which returned a "true bill" if it found cause to make the charge, or "no bill" if it did not find cause.
Usage examples of "indictment".
In the entire twelve-year history of FBI mistakes leading up to September 11, the fact that FBI headquarters ignored that desperate eleventh-hour plea from its own field agents is perhaps the greatest indictment of the house that Hoover built.
In his indictment he did not acquit himself, but called all irenicists hairsplitting fools who, to forestall the worst, had consistently prolonged the national disaster.
Roy, a Quebec Conservative, resigned from his party, he placed on Hansard a bitter indictment of Tory policies.
The twenty-count indictment was based on a Civil War-era statute aimed at stopping plots to overthrow the government.
Derringer warrants an indictment, regardless of the exculpatory evidence.
They both called press conferences and went on the air to denounce the indictments -- in language that strangely echoed the American Legion outcry when Lt.
We ran a drug recovery crashpad as a front, suborned teenyboppers into prostitution, coerced male patients into phone sales duty and kept them motivated with Benzedrine-laced espressoall of which peaked at twenty-four grand jury bills busted down to three indictments apiece.
We ran a drug recovery crashpad as a front, suborned teenyboppers into prostitution, coerced male patients into phone sales duty and kept them motivated with Benzedrine-laced espresso-all of which peaked at twenty-four grand jury bills busted down to three indictments apiece.
It is the practical inattention to similar coincidences which has given rise to the unpleasant but often necessary documents called indictments, which has sharpened a form of the cephalotome sometimes employed in the case of adults, and adjusted that modification of the fillet which delivers the world of those who happen to be too much in the way while such striking coincidences are taking place.
Clinton also empanelled two grand juries to consider criminal indictments.
Smith enlarges this indictment with some touches of humor characteristic of him.
Gilmer reads all the testimony, examines the facts, and we let him talk to our witnesses, and he does recommend that no indictment be forwarded.
The press would swarm like hornets, indictments would rain, and the dump would be nailed shut forever.
A grand jury is following the trail of slime, and indictments certainly will come.
And in some places, when wrongdoing is uncovered, indictments are drawn, trials are held and an actual attempt is made to punish the crooks.