{"id":3452,"date":"2014-08-17T18:01:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T18:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/powersmccartan.wpengine.com\/?p=3452"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:33:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T17:33:28","slug":"indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/indictment\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does It Mean to Be Indicted in North Carolina?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/NC-General-Statutes-compressor.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3461 lazyload\" src=\"\/jshared\/img\/icons\/spinner.svg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/NC-General-Statutes-compressor.jpg\" alt=\"NC General Statutes \" width=\"690\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>What Does It Mean to Be Indicted?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p2\">In an earlier post \u201c<i><a title=\"THE GRAND JURY \u2013 What Does It Mean To Be Indicted?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/indictment\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Grand Jury &#8211; What Does It Mean to be Indicted<\/a>\u201d <\/i>we briefly mentioned the \u201cindictment\u201d and Grand Jury proceedings. \u00a0Although most people have a working understanding of what the word \u201cindictment\u201d means and at the least have heard it used previously in news reports, television series and crime novels; most do not understand the integral role it plays in our complex legal system. It is therefore prudent to start from the ground up in understanding what an indictment is and the role it plays in the criminal legal practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">To recap, the grand jury decides to issue an indictment if it believes there is sufficient evidence to charge someone with a crime. An indictment is the document setting forth such charges. To be specific, North Carolina General Statute 15A-641(a) defines the indictment as \u201ca written accusation by a grand jury, filed with a superior court, charging a person with the commission of one or more criminal offenses.\u201d Merrium-Webster Dictionary states the meaning quite simply as \u201can official written statement charging a person with a crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/indictment\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading What Does It Mean to Be Indicted in North Carolina?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Does It Mean to Be Indicted? In an earlier post \u201cThe Grand Jury &#8211; What Does It Mean to be Indicted\u201d we briefly mentioned the \u201cindictment\u201d and Grand Jury proceedings. \u00a0Although most people have a working understanding of what the word \u201cindictment\u201d means and at the least have heard it used previously in news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32,192,169,193,194,174,195,196],"class_list":["post-3452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criminal-defense","tag-bill-powers","tag-criminal-defense-attorney","tag-criminal-defense-lawyer","tag-grand-jury","tag-grand-jury-indictment","tag-indictment","tag-north-carolina-serious-criminal-defense","tag-true-bill-of-indictment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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