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n. A grand jury's determination that there is not adequate evidence to indict someone.See also no bill or no true bill
Webster's New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000.
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A term that the foreman of the grand jury writes across the face of a bill of indictment (a document drawn up by a prosecutor that states formal criminal charges against a designated individual) to indicate that the criminal charges alleged therein against a suspect have not been sufficiently supported by the evidence presented before it to warrant his or her criminal prosecution.
Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.
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A term that the foreman of the grand jury writes across the face of a bill of indictment (a document drawn up by a prosecutor that states formal criminal charges against a designated individual) to indicate that the criminal charges alleged therein against a suspect have not been sufficiently supported by the evidence presented before it to warrant his or her criminal prosecution.II This phrase, endorsed by a grand jury on the written indictment submitted to it for its approval, means that the evidence was found insufficient to indict.
Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.
