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Indictment



In the common law legal system, an indictment () is a formal charge of having committed a most serious criminal offense. In those jurisdictions which retain the concept of a felony, the serious criminal offense would be a felony; those jurisdictions which have abolished the concept of a felony often substitute instead the concept of an indictable offense, i.



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