An accusation by a grand jury charging a person with a crime. The process of indictment by grand jury bypasses the filing of a criminal complaint and the holding of a preliminary hearing, so prosecution begins...

Arrest warrant · Search warrant Probable cause · Knock-and-announce Exigent circumstance Reasonable suspicion Search and seizure · Search of persons Arrest  · Detention Right to silence · Miranda warning (U.S.) Grand...

PRESIDENT BUSH describes himself as a war president. Now he has a war indictment at his doorstep. The charges filed yesterday against his vice president's chief of staff, Lewis Libby, grew out of war fervor in the White House that was nothing short of...

THERE IS MUCH to be dissected and pondered in the multiple indictments of John Poindexter, Oliver North, Richard Secord and Albert Hakim handed down by a grand jury yesterday, and we expect to be doing some of that dissecting and pondering in the days...

A Milwaukee alderman shook down businesses in his district as recently as April, according to a federal indictment released Wednesday.A federal grand jury indicted Michael I. McGee Jr. on Tuesday on five felony counts of bribery, three of extortion and one financial-related violation. U.S. District...

An immigration official indicted on bribery and fraud charges is accused of taking money and gifts in exchange for freeing numerous illegal immigrants, including one who later killed a college student, federal officials said Wednesday.The Immigration and Customs Enforcement official also is accused of conspiring...

Examines the power of suggestion with the film "Indictment" as a main source. Describes how the power of suggestion may influence the American judicial system.