Word Finder - indictment

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An official formal accusation for a criminal offence, or the process by which it is brought to a jury.

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The official legal document outlining the charges concerned; bill of indictment.

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An accusation of wrongdoing; a criticism or condemnation.

They moved to quash the indictment on which he was brought to trial.

The serial killer was found guilty and given an indictment for his crimes.

The jury has handed down an indictment for the criminal.

The more unanswerable this tremendous indictment appears upon the evidence the greater the probability that the evidence is incomplete.

Early in October the Convention brought forward its indictment of the twenty-two Girondists.

A highway nuisance may be abated by any person, and may be made the subject of indictment at common law.

The indictment dropped, but a vote of want of confidence was passed, and in 1881 Smith was removed from his chair.

But it contained also a bold indictment of the whole system of foreign policy then in vogue, founded on ideas as to the balance of power and the necessity of large armaments for the protection of commerce.

The rising home break-in rate is an indictment of the poor circumstances in the neighborhood.

Despite this flaw, however, Amistad still provides a powerful indictment of slavery, and brilliantly conveys the horrors of the slave trade.

This transports a verdict of " not guilty " on the indictment of British imperialism creating an anarchic international security corollary.

This is a sad indictment of the world's fourth largest economy.

Some people see the increase in temperature as an indictment of global warming.

It is to be observed that neither at common law nor under the act of 1679 was the writ the appropriate remedy in the case of a person convicted either on indictment or summarily.

Applications to the Court to amend the indictment because of error should never be necessary.

The checking procedure must be observed even in cases where counsel has drafted the indictment.

Patrick O'Connor, QC for the family, said, " This report is a devastating indictment of the whole prison service.

My own suspicion is that the Americans may try for a war crimes indictment against Saddam Hussein.

Road to Nirvana, a bizarre indictment of the moral morass of Hollywood, is an absolute riot.

The indictment charged Northumberland with endeavoring to head the English papists and procure them toleration.

The grounds for changing the time limits are to provide the defense with more time to prepare after the service of the indictment.

On the 26th of June, accompanied by fourteen others, he presented to the grand jury of Westminster an indictment of the duke of York as a Popish recusant.

In Siena he wrote his Actio in pontifices romanos et eorum asseclas, a vigorous indictment, in twenty "testimonia," against what he now believed to be the fundamental error of the Roman Church in subordinating Scripture to tradition, as well as against various particular doctrines, such as that of ' P. Orsi in Notizie degli Scavi (1899), 45 2 -47 1; Romische Quartalschrift (1898), 624-631.

On the r4th of June Stolypin's proposal for the arrest of 16 members and the indictment of 55 was shelved by being referred to a committee.

Nevertheless he continued to conspire, and in 1847 he published anonymously a "Protest of the People of the Two Sicilies," a scathing indictment of the Bourbon government.

Breach of the obligation is treated as a criminal offence, and is prosecuted by indictment.

Several days later Floyd was indicted for malversation in office, but the indictment was overruled on technical grounds.

This indictment against liberal thought from the standpoint of the theological school was afterwards answered in Spain by Averroes; but in Bagdad it heralded the extinction of the light of philosophy.

When troubles broke out in Turkestan and were supported by military force, Kerensky went to the affected districts and published a scathing indictment of the policy of the Government in Central Asia.

The word's out the grand jury is inches away from returning an indictment against Big Daddy Delasandro!

In Scotland, the maximum fine on summary conviction is £40,000, or an unlimited fine on conviction on indictment.

The indictment, in eight articles, dealt with his conduct in the Fries and Callender trials, with his treatment of a Delaware grand jury, and (in article viii.) with his making "highly indecent, extra-judicial" reflections upon the national administration, probably the greatest offence in Republican eyes.

Seton-Watson (" Scotus Viator "), Racial Problems in Hungary (London, 1908), a strong indictment of the racial policy of the Magyars, supported by exact references and many ' The methods pursued to this end are exposed in pitiless detail by Mr Seton-Watson in his chapter on the Education Laws of Hungary, in Racial Problems, 205.

A pardon may be pleaded on arraignment in bar of an indictment (though not of an impeachment), or after verdict in arrest of judgment.

Having made careful investigations, Gladstone, on the 7th of April 1851, addressed an open letter to Lord Aberdeen, bringing an elaborate, detailed and horrible indictment against the rulers of Naples, especially as regards the arrangements of their prisons and the treatment of persons confined in them for political offences.

These facts, again, in Letter II., are worthless to a forger, because they concern matters never alluded to in any of the records; never employed in any indictment (though Lennox's are copious in private talk between Darnley and Mary, "reports of her servants"), and totally useless for the purposes of the accusers.

Incidents in it were his vehement opposition to the Mexican War as a scheme for more slavery territory, the assault made upon him in Washington by Congressman Albert Rust of Arkansas in 1856, an indictment in Virginia in the same year for circulating incendiary documents, perpetual denunciation of him in Southern newspapers and speeches, and the hostility of the Abolitionists, who regarded his course as too conservative.

Jeffreys, however, was made lord chiefjustice in September; a jury was packed; and, after consultations between the judge and the crown lawyers, Sidney was brought to listen to the indictment on the 7th of November.

Douwes Dekker, which contained a scathing indictment of the colonial system.

Theological historians from that time forward have perpetuated the indictment that Erasmus sided with neither party in the struggle for religious truth.

In politics an extreme States'-Rights Democrat, he opposed the coercion of the South, and after the Civil War became senior counsel for Jefferson Davis on his indictment for treason, and was one of his bondsmen; these facts and O'Conor's connexion with the Roman Catholic Church affected unfavourably his political fortunes.

Under the Stuarts the criminal jurisdiction of parliament was again resorted to, and when the proceedings against a peer were founded on indictment the appointment of a steward followed as a matter of settled practice.

Failure to give information of death, or to comply with the registrar's requisitions, entails a penalty not exceeding forty shillings, and making false statements or certificates, or forging or falsifying them, is punishable either summarily within six months, or on indictment within three years of the offence.

The prosecution was conducted with all the force of the government; the defence was undertaken by some of the most brilliant Liberal advocates of Germany and developed in effect into an elaborate indictment, supported by a great weight of first-hand evidence, of the iniquities of the Russian rgime.

He delivered a scathing indictment of the Empire at the trial of Pierre Bonaparte for killing Victor Noir in 1870, and took a part in the revolution of the 4th of September, as well as in the subsequent defence of Paris.

Eighty-three per cent of the annual convictions, summarily and on indictment, followed by committal to gaol, are for misconduct that is distinctly non-criminal, such as breaches of municipal by-laws and police regulations, drunkenness, gaming and offences under the vagrancy acts.

To be an eminent scholar was to be accused of immorality, heresy and atheism in a single indictment; and the defence of weaker minds lay in joining the Jesuits, as Heinsius was fain to do.

On the case being appealed to the Privy Council, this particular indictment was dismissed on the ground that the vicar, not the bishop, was responsible for the presence of the lights, the general question of the legality of altar lights being discreetly left open.

Shaftesbury was imprisoned, and though the Middlesex jury threw out his indictment and he was liberated, he never recovered his power, and in October 1682 left England for ever.

Brailsford in Macedonia (London, 1906) brings a crushing indictment against the Patriarchist party.