Additionally, if a Defendant has been charged on an indictment with assault occasioning actual bodily harm ( ABH ), or racially / religiously aggravated assault, then a jury in the Crown Court may acquit the Defendant of the more serious offence, but still convict of common assault if it finds common assault has been committed.

It is doubtful whether in the ordinary way persons charged with commission of this offence were dealt with by indictment.

In the U. S., if the defendant is charged with a federal felony, he has the right to an indictment by a grand jury pursuant to the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.

Other special pleas used in criminal cases include the plea of mental incompetence, challenging the jurisdiction of the court over the defendant's person, the plea in bar, attacking the jurisdiction of the court over the crime charged, and the plea in abatement, which is used to address procedural errors in bringing the charges against the defendant, not apparent on the " face " of the indictment or other charging instrument.

In light of the other heinous crimes Bokassa was charged with, the embezzlement indictment seemed almost insignificant, particularly since Bokassa had clearly already spent most of the money that was stolen.

A federal indictment has charged a white supremacist from Virginia, Bill White, with " communicating threats in interstate commerce ", based on White's emails to Tyson and phone calls to Tyson's wife in 2008.

A 50-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Tampa charged the defendants under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ) with operating a racketeering enterprise from 1984 that engaged in violent activities, as well as: conspiracy within the U. S. to kill and maim persons abroad, conspiracy to provide material support and resources to PIJ, conspiracy to violate emergency economic sanctions, engaging in various acts of interstate extortion, perjury, obstruction of justice, and immigration fraud.

Novello was charged in a 20 count indictment on May 12, 2009, in New York with theft of government services, defrauding the government and filing a false instrument.

So, a person would not be a victim of entrapment if the person was ready, willing and able to commit the crime charged in the indictment whenever opportunity was afforded, and that government officers or their agents did no more than offer an opportunity.

Two members of the press gang were charged with murder and convicted, but were released when the indictment was found invalid.

In June 2003, the Prosecutor to the Special Court unsealed the indictment and announced publicly that Taylor was charged with war crimes.

The ten-count indictment charged them with conspiracy to distribute cocaine, possession with intent to distribute cocaine, money laundering and being part of a continuing criminal enterprise.

" None of the original allegations put forward by the U. S. government three years prior, the claims that held Padilla in the majority in solitary confinement throughout that period, were part of the indictment: " Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced Padilla is being removed from military custody and charged with a series of crimes " and " There is no mention in the indictment of Padilla's alleged plot to use a dirty bomb in the United States.

The indictment also charged that Kerik made several false statements to the White House ( in his background information statement regarding his Department of Homeland Security appointment ) and other federal officials.

Biljana Plavšić was charged with crimes against humanity that include but are not limited to the killings in Doboj. Plavisic's indictment related to genocide charges in Doboj specifically includes but is not limited to the following killings:

After ruling that the Court could indeed resolve the matter and that Jaworski had proven a " sufficient likelihood that each of the tapes contains conversations relevant to the offenses charged in the indictment ," the Court went to the main issue of executive privilege.

The indictment charged that he violated the state's securities laws by defrauding investors on multiple occasions between January 2001 and March 2002.

On the trial of an indictment for treason, the jury cannot return an alternative verdict to the offence charged in that indictment under section 6 ( 3 ) of the Criminal Law Act 1967.

On the trial of an indictment for treason, the jury cannot return an alternative verdict to the offence charged in that indictment under section 6 ( 2 ) of the Criminal Law Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1967.

Garey Ballance was also charged in the indictment with income tax evasion.

* A person charged with a criminal offense, or the state of being so charged ; see indictment

Not least among the members of the patent bar who echoed this powerful indictment were those who had participated in the Selden suit.

A layman could bring a bill of indictment to the grand jury ; if the grand jury found there was sufficient evidence for a trial, that the act was a crime under law, and that the court had jurisdiction, it would return the indictment to the complainant.

Only Digby, tried on a separate indictment, pleaded guilty, insisting that the King had reneged upon promises of toleration for Catholics, and that affection for Catesby and love of the Catholic cause mitigated his actions.

Two witnesses who had originally testified in her grand jury indictment had died by the time she was found and brought to trial: a plumber who had sold materials used in the bomb had picked Soliah out of a lineup as one of the buyers, and a bomb expert had stated the explosive could have been built in Soliah's apartment.

Later that year, Giuliani began seriously considering an indictment of Drexel under the powerful Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, which he had previously used against organized crime.

" Moral equivalence " began to be used as a polemic term-of-retort to " moral relativism ", which had been gaining use as an indictment against political foreign policy that appeared to use only a situation-based application of widely-held ethical standards.

However, these charges were all dismissed for " no merit " by Supreme Court Judge Kase on December 11, 2009 on the grounds that the prosecution had misled the Grand Jury in the indictment.

The indictment of murder thus upon her, she had been forced to abdicate and was imprisoned in Loch Leven Castle.

It had already started winding down its American operations after the indictment, and many of its accountants joined other firms.

According to the indictment, the five ordered Calvi's murder to prevent the banker " from using blackmail power against his political and institutional sponsors from the world of Masonry, belonging to the P2 lodge, or to the Institute for Religious Works ( the Vatican Bank ) with whom he had managed investments and financing with conspicuous sums of money, some of it coming from Cosa Nostra and public agencies ".

In March 1999, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ) announced that Željko Ražnatović ( Arkan ) had been indicted by the Tribunal, although the indictment was only made public after Arkan ’ s assassination.

The indictment also revealed that Gotti's friend " Willie Boy " Johnson, one of his co-defendants, had been an FBI informant.

When Ruggiero, also under indictment, had his bail revoked for his abrasive behavior in preliminary hearings, a frustrated Gotti instead promoted Joseph Armone to underboss.

Sting had first shown his interest in social and political issues in his 1980 Police song " Driven to Tears ", an angry indictment of apathy in the face of world hunger.

The indictment argued that Grynszpan's objective in shooting vom Rath had been to " prevent through force of threats the Führer and Reichschancellor from the conduct of their constitutional functions " at the behest of international Jewry.

Although Hiss's indictment stemmed from the alleged espionage, he could not be tried for that crime because the statute of limitations had expired.

Although the grand jury indictment covers only the 2007 to 2010 time span, some former officials contend that cash payments of fines had been systematically stolen as long as 10 years prior.

McCarty, who had fled to Texas after his escape from McSween's house, was under indictment, but sent Wallace a letter requesting immunity in return for testifying in front of the Grand Jury.

Cohen had his murder indictment dropped prior to the start of the trial after his conviction on a federal narcotics charge and received a 10-year sentence.

Jefferson's lawyers have promised to appeal, a gesture which New Orleans former U. S. attorney Harry Rosenberg told the Times-Picayune may work in Jefferson's favor because the jury failed to convict him on all sixteen of the indictment counts.

* Sen. Patti Weaver ( D ) pleaded guilty after 1993 indictment charging that she was promised help finding a job in exchange for support of legislation.