Timeline for How has James Madison's term 'infamous crime' typically been defined?
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| Feb 24, 2020 at 13:27 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | @NeilMeyer: Briefly, it's a formal statement of charges of a crime issued by a grand jury. In cases requiring indictment, this has to happen before the accused person can be put on trial. You hear the term pretty often in the news (also in its verb form, "indict"/"indicted"). Lesser crimes don't require this process, and a prosecutor can issue the charges directly in a document called an "information". | |
| Feb 24, 2020 at 11:44 | comment | added | Neil Meyer | What does he mean by indictment? I have not heard that word before. | |
| Feb 24, 2020 at 11:43 | vote | accept | Neil Meyer | ||
| Feb 23, 2020 at 14:29 | history | answered | Nate Eldredge | CC BY-SA 4.0 |