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Indictment vs Charged - What's the difference?

indictment | charged |

As a noun indictment

is (legal) an official formal accusation for a criminal offence, or the process by which it is brought to a jury.

As a verb charged is

(charge).

indictment

English

(wikipedia indictment)

Alternative forms

* endictment

Noun

  • (legal) An official formal accusation for a criminal offence, or the process by which it is brought to a jury.
  • (legal) The official legal document outlining the charges concerned.
  • (countable, uncountable) An accusation of wrongdoing; a criticism or condemnation.

    • See also

    * grand jury * plea, pleading

    charged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (charge)
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    • , author=(Jan Sapp) , title=Race Finished , volume=100, issue=2, page=164 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}