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in·dict
/ inˈdīt/
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v. [tr.] (usu. be indicted)
formally accuse or charge (someone) with a serious crime:
his former manager was indicted for fraud.
DERIVATIVES:
in·dict·ee
/ ˌindīˈtē/ n.
in·dict·er
n.
ORIGIN: Middle English endite, indite, from Anglo-Norman French enditer, based on Latin indicere ‘proclaim, appoint,’ from in- ‘toward’ + dicere ‘pronounce, utter.’
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Indictments handed down in drug-violation cases.
Newspaper article from: Dominion Post (Morgantown, WV); 9/17/2007; 700+ words
; ...Monongalia County. The indictment asks the court to forfeit...the remining 13 drug indictments, eight have area connections...in a three-count indictment on charges of distributing...County. Other drug indictments: Christopher Clarke...named in a 13-count indictment on charges of ...
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Indictments Depict Noriega As Drug-Trafficking Kingpin; U.S. Had Long Backed Panamanian Leader
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/6/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...Panama Canal. The indictments come at a time when...officials insist the indictments are not related to...economy. The Miami indictment, which alleges that...yesterday that the Noriega indictment is aimed at individuals...yesterday that the indictments "make it clear that...
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Indictment: NH Teens Targeted Others
News Wire article from: AP Online; 2/19/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Grafton County Superior Court indictment dated Friday and unsealed...motive was robbery. The new indictment charges Tulloch with murder...each of the multiple murder indictments he still faces is mandatory...of Jan. 27, 2001. The indictment alleges that Tulloch and...
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INDICTMENTS RETURNED AGAINST MEMPHIS CITY COUNCILMEN PEETE, FORD
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 12/19/2006; 700+ words
; ...alleged in the indictments. The indictment against Peete...according to the indictment, Cooper assisted...According to the indictments, Cooper made...according to the indictment against Ford...according to the indictments against Peete...
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INDICTMENT CHARGES JAILED JOHNSTON MAN WITH CONNING INVENTOR, DEFRAUDING INVESTORS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/27/2009; 700+ words
; ...jointly announced a ten-count indictment charging DeSimone with mail fraud and money laundering. The indictment was returned on March 11 in U.S...Stik, Song Tube. According to the indictment, DeSimone's scheme involved the...
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Indictment of ex-governor lays out web of corruption
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 4/4/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...International Herald Tribune 04-04-2009 Indictment of ex-governor lays out web of corruption...Blagojevich Enterprise." In a 19-count indictment, prosecutors said Thursday that the...his friends. Running 75 pages, the indictment had been expected for nearly four months...
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Indictment Says Charity Official Funded Liaisons; Aramony Is Accused Of Soliciting Workers
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...lied to Brennan. In its 182-page indictment, the grand jury charged that Aramony...not usually found in a criminal fraud indictment: "Aramony used the financial resources...s not my syndrome, you know." The indictment alleges, however, that Aramony arranged...
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FEDERAL INDICTMENTS UNSEALED IN CASE INVOLVING TRAFFICKING OF COUNTERFEIT GOODS, MONEY LAUNDERING
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/29/2006; 700+ words
; ...forfeiture. The five indictments were unsealed today...defendants named in the indictments. The first indictment contains one or...fifth and final indictment charges MOSHEN A...defendants charged in the indictments, the following...
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INDICTMENT DEPICTS DRUG SCHEME
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/7/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...than $10 million -- and the indictment that led to Wednesday's arrest...ruler. The key February 1988 indictment of Noriega, handed up by a grand...went through Panama. A second indictment, issued in Tampa, charges that...
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INDICTMENT RETURNED AGAINST FORMER MED EMPLOYEE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 12/20/2006; 700+ words
; ...Tennessee, announced the return of an indictment against Cassandra J. Stanfield, a...Medical Center Memphis. The 32-count indictment was returned today by a Federal Grand...Western District of Tennessee. The indictment alleges that in 2002, 2003, 2004...
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indictment
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...knowledge, without any bill of indictment having been previously drawn...felony) crime except on indictment or presentment. Fewer than...grand jury action. When an indictment or presentment is approved...marks it "true bill." Indictments, presentments, and informations...
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Indictment
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
INDICTMENT A written accusation charging that an...something that is punishable by law. An indictment is found and presented by a grand jury...reasonable doubt. The purpose of an indictment is to inform an accused individual of...
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Bill of Indictment
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
BILL OF INDICTMENT A formal written document that is drawn up by a government prosecutor accusing a designated person of having committed a felony or misdemeanor and which is presented to a grand jury so that it may take action upon it.
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Grand Jury
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice
...country to avoid a probable indictment by a new grand jury. The...juries twice refused to issue indictments. It was with such cases...unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury." The reference...system. In screening proposed indictments put before it by the prosecution...
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Hurtado v. California
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...criminal prosecution be initiated by an indictment by a grand jury. The constitution of...to cross-examine witnesses, or by indictment with or without a preliminary hearing...the basis of an information, not an indictment or presentment by a grand jury as required...
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