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To: Windsock who wrote (132521)	2/12/2001 2:22:31 PM
From: hmaly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570548

Windsock Re..A grand Jury does NOT issue a verdict, it issues an Indictment. Windsock, look up the word verdict in the dictionary. According to mine, the definitions are 1.) law.,. the formal and unanimous finding of a jury on the matter submitted to them in a trial. 2. any decision and judgement. New world Dictionary page 1577 A handing down of a indictment is a verdict according to definition 2 of the dictionary; as an indictment is a decision. It probably even fits definition 1 in that it is the finding of a jury on the matter submitted to them; in this case the finding to indict. In addition the def. of indictment is 1.) an indicting or being indicted. 2. a charge; accusation; spec.., a formal written accusation charging one or more persons with the comission of a crime, presented by the grand jury to court when a jury has found, after examining the evidence presented that there is a valid case. Those are the two definitions in question. An indictment to me is the judgement of the grand jury that there is a valid case. And that judgement meets the standard as defined by the word verdict. By definition, an indictment is a verdict. It is not a guilty verdict, but it is a verdict.