nothing about the document is able to be known, INCLUDING if
it is an indictment, not all sealed criminal cases are indictments
In jurisdictions that use the concept of felonies, the most serious criminal offense is a felony
jurisdictions that do n…
nothing about the document is able to be known, INCLUDING if
it is an indictment, not all sealed criminal cases are indictments
In jurisdictions that use the concept of felonies, the most serious criminal offense is a felony
jurisdictions that do not use the felonies concept often use that of an indictable offense,
an offense that requires an indictment which is a criminal accusation only formatted as
a short & plain statement of where, when, and how the defendant allegedly committed the offense. Each offense usually is set out in a separate count stating that a person has committed a "crime" usually through a preliminary hearing, at which a judge determines whether there was probable cause so they may be tried by jury &
validated by filing directly with the court OR through a grand jury
An indictment can be sealed so that it stays non-public & Reduces Flight Risk ,, shields an accused from the stigma of being associated with a crime when the pre-trial judge ultimately may not confirm the indictment due to lack of evidence, to protect the identities of witnesses or to buy time so the police can investigate people complicit in crimes, search warrants, wiretap/pen register applications, requests for tax records, prosecutions of juveniles, & misdemeanor drug offenses
a clerk must then seal the indictment, and (except as necessary to issue or execute a warrant or summons) no person may disclose the indictment’s existence
& it will become unsealed only just before the defendant goes to trial so if you heard of it
before any of this, , its a fake accusation
accept if the existence of sealed indictments is public & can be found by searching the U.S. government’s court documents access system, PACER BUT Not all sealed documents are on PACER, and not every sealed criminal case file that comes up in PACER is an indictment, most are not
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/sealed-indictments-qanon-conspiracy/
https://www.metabunk.org/debunked-qanon-claims-there-have-..
