Criminal suspects must be made aware of the crimes they are accused of committing, and this comes mostly in the form of an indictment, a precise and detailed list of charges for which the criminally accused will be tried.
And that, in itself, is another kind of indictment.
"What I do is palliative care," he told his wife, a primary-care physician, in a form of self-indictment.
This may be Fugard's own form of self-indictment, but it unbalances the play by putting more stress on Afrikaaner angst than on the reality of black poverty.
It is hard to imagine a more painful form of self-indictment.
Since then, accountability has been relentless, arriving in the form of lawsuits, indictments, warnings of a federal consent decree, ridicule and embarrassment.
First come the accusations, usually in the form of a federal indictment.
That the debate has been so intense is a tribute to our open form of government not an indictment.
Bugliosi's criticisms do not take the form of a blanket indictment.
Each was horrifying in its details and death toll, but collectively the shootings — an elementary school, a Navy yard, a movie theater, randomly on city streets — form an indictment of our society.
