what is direct indictment?
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A direct indictment goes straight to trial, circumventing the preliminary hearing. In the United States at least, this requires presenting the case to a Grand Jury and having them issue the indictment.
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indictment\n\nif I understand your question
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I'm no lawyer, and I know very little about the American justice system, but I doubt a DA can bring charges of Treason against our old friend* George W. Bush.\n\n\n*By friend, I mean scum-sucking peon.
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Can you say VETO.\n\nThey should start investigations day after his first veto.
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im·peach    audio:  ( m-pch )   TRANSITIVE VERB:  1. To make an accusation against.\n2. To charge ( public official) with improper conduct in office before a proper tribunal.
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Indicted? No. Once indicted, the indictment would generally lead to a trial. No matter the outcome of the trial, guilty or not guilty, there would be no grounds on which to indict a person again. (EXCEPTION: unless the person is indicted for the same crime, but a different instance that occured separately from the initial instance.\n\nThe only way you can be tried on the same charge more than once is in the event of a mistrial. \nAside from this, you can be tried for similar (but not the same) charges under certain circumstance. \n\nFor example, OJ Simpson was tried in criminal court for Murder and found not guility, but was subsequently tried in civil court for wrongful death and convicted. The punishments are completely different, criminal charges can result in fines and jail time for a defendant, while civil court can only award monetary damages to the plantiff.\n\nThere appears to be some confusion as to what the indictment process entails...Once indicted, one of two things happen...a defedant is tried and found guilty or not guilty, or a plea bargain is negotiated. \n\nWhere they exist, grand juries are part of the system of checks and balances, preventing a case from going to trial on a prosecutor's bare word: an impartial panel of ordinary citizens must first decide whether there exists reasonable cause or probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed. To this end, witnesses can be compelled to testify before them. Unlike the trial itself, the grand jury's proceedings are secret; the defendant and his or her counsel are generally not present for other witnesses' testimony.
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From an archived news story reported by the AP: For the second time in two months, Ohio Rep. James Traficant took to the House floor to allege a connection between organized crime and the FBI. He also repeated a prediction that he will be indicted as part of a Justice Department corruption investigation.  \n\n"There may be an indictment any day," the eight-term Democrat said Monday [June 26, 2000]. "But during this period of time where I have been targeted, I have been investigating the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department in the northern district of Ohio.\n\n"FBI agents in the northern district of Ohio have been on the payroll of the mob," Traficant charged. "They have been bankrolled by the mob."\n\nTraficant also repeated his allegation that an FBI informant in Ohio once told him the agency had asked the informant to commit murder.
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Federal Offence on federal property.  State offence otherwise.\n\nThis is my field of work.
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I don't have a degree in law...\n\nBut the way I understand it is that a Grand Jury is convened because a prosecutor brings charges, and prosecutors bring charges because they think they have evidence (and politics)...\n\nMaybe a news story about said corruption would generate enough outcry to get over the political hump in the D.A.'s office.\n\nBottom line, it's all about evidence... and evidence means it's provable, and usually specific/physical in nature.  Circumstantial evidence or hearsay would usually not be the strongest foundation of a prosecution.\n\nBut I'm not an attorney, maybe I'll put this on my watchlist to check out the other answers.
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Yes, a grand jury merely decides whether there is enough evidence for an indictment and can be called again during the trial.
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A preliminary examination is the same as a preliminary hearing. Typically, this is a hearing that the defense counsel requests prior to the issuance of an indictment. The defense counsel will probably attempt to show the presiding judge during the hearing that the case should not be indicted and the charges should be dropped or dramatically reduced. The victim is usually present with his or her attorney to present their side. These hearings attempt to examine the facts and circumstances of the case to determine if the defendant will be charged. However, I am not an attorney and this victim certainly needs to be represented by a good criminal attorney.
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Acceleration proceedings are of initiated when a party given a deferred sentence  violates the terms of the sentence imposed. Essentially, it reopens the deferred judgement for consideration and revision or other punitive measures.\n\ncc
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Article 32 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (Section 832 of Title 10, United States Code), requires a thorough and impartial investigation of charges and specifications before they may be referred to a general court-martial (the most serious level of courts-martial).\n(a) No charge or specification may be referred to a general court-martial for trial until a through and impartial investigation of all the matters set forth therein has been made. This investigation shall include inquiry as to the truth of the matter set forth in the charges, consideration of the form of charges, and recommendation as to the disposition which should be made of the case in the interest of justice and discipline.\n\n(b) The accused shall be advised of the charges against him and of his right to be represented at that investigation as provided in section 838 of this title (article 38) and in regulations prescribed under that section. At that investigation full opportunity shall be given to the accused to cross-examine witnesses against him if they are available and to present anything he may desire in his own behalf, either in defense or mitigation, and the investigation officer shall examine available witnesses requested by the accused. If the charges are forwarded after the investigation, they shall be accompanied by a statement of the substance of the testimony taken on both sides and a copy thereof shall be given to the accused.\n\n(c) If an investigation of the subject matter of an offense has been conducted before the accused is charged with the offense, and if the accused was present at the investigation and afforded the opportunities for representation, cross-examination, and presentation prescribed in subsection (b), no further investigation of that charge is necessary under this article unless it is demanded by the accused after he is informed of the charge. A demand for further investigation entitles the accused to recall witnesses for further cross-examination and to offer any new evidence in his own behalf.\n\n(d) The requirements of this article are binding on all persons administering this chapter but failure to follow them does not constitute judicial error.
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You're asking a complex question\n\nObstruction, as in Martha Stewart interfering with an investigation?\n\nLying to an officer, as in making a statement after waiving Miranda Rights, signing a Crime Report?\n\nOfficers from your State jurisdiction, or officers from Federal jurisdiction?\n\nThe truth coming out, as in being prosecuted?  Yes, whether or not you are found guilty...A prosecution by, say, a DA will appear on your record and not subject to expungement\n\nA good job, as in for Dept of Defense? not if you need a security clearance\n\nA good job, as in confiction of a felony?  quite likely a company still asks these questions about whether you've had conviction of a felony\n\nA good job, as in a misdemeanor? don't volunteer information unless it is required on the job application
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Yes, you could be charged with "obstruction of justice", which means you interfered with a police investigation.
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Indictment is a preliminary stage of a formal charge that would follow only if the grand jury (those who get to decide whether the person is likely to have committed a crime) determined the person might have committed a crime.  So being indicted does not mean you are guilty as charge but an important stage for the ensuing formal charge, which, if tried, determines whether the person is guilty of the crime in trial.
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They are in charge of prosecuting federal crimes in the United States.\n\nRead the "Mission Statement"\n\nhttp://www.usdoj.gov/02organizations/