Sentence examples for initial indictment from inspiring English sources
The prosecutor, Daniel Bellemare, said the amendment "expands the scope" of the initial indictment he filed in January.
A United States attorney, Dennis K. Burke, called it an initial indictment and suggested that additional charges were forthcoming.
The racially charged comments so incensed a different judge, Vern Robinson, that he tossed the initial indictment the following May.
In trials, like that of Pussy Riot, that are guided by powerful political interests, convictions are preordained, and the verdicts are generally identical to the initial indictment.
Bonds is set to appear before the judge on March 1 to enter his third not guilty plea since his initial indictment in 2007.
Yet his case, which has cost both sides millions of dollars and has dragged on since his initial indictment in 2007, is far from over.
American justice officials reaffirmed that the initial indictments were just the start.
"While I disagree with Clarence Norman on every political fact of life, and certainly on the way judges are appointed in Brooklyn, Joe Hynes got into the case expressing the belief that Norman had some part in a corrupt process," Koch said after the initial indictments.
In the autumn of 2001, following the election of Carla Del Ponte as the new ICTY Prosecutor, Judge Almiro Rodrigues confirmed the initial Croatia Indictment against Milošević and Judge Richard May confirmed the Bosnia Indictment against him (Prosecutor v. Milošević 8 October 2001; 22 November 2001).
Louise Arbour, who was the chief prosecutor for the tribunal at the time of the initial Milosevic indictment, said the Paterson-Williamson team "showed that Milosevic was commander of the army and the police; that everything came under his command both in the political and the military sense".
As a local or regional story, it may be worth the space on an almost daily basis, but as a national story, I would suggest that the initial allegations, indictments (or decision not to prosecute), trial, verdict and any related editorial and Op-Ed comment would be sufficient.
