🔷 Indictment
➡️ An indictment is a formal accusation against someone suspected of committing a serious criminal offense. A grand jury issues an indictment after reviewing evidence and determining there was probable cause a crime was committed.
🔷 Indictment, in the United States, a formal written accusation of crime affirmed by a grand jury and presented by it to a court for trial of the accused. The grand jury system was eliminated in England in 1933, and current law there provides for a bill of indictment to be presented to the court when the person accused has been committed to trial by a magistrate and in certain other cases.
➡️ An indictment must establish the jurisdiction of the court to try the case, provide adequate notice to the defendants of the charges against them, enable the court to pronounce judgment upon conviction, and prevent a second prosecution for the same offense (see double jeopardy). The indictment at common law was an instrument of remarkable prolixity, and formal requirements of the document and the modes of alleging elements of the offense were strictly enforced; amendments were not permitted. Modern indictments in England have been simplified as to form and language. Each charge must be in a separate count, but any number of felonies and misdemeanours may be joined in the same indictment. A defective indictment may be amended unless “the required amendments cannot be made without injustice.”
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