criminal charge
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Vinony's link graph records 465 inbound references to criminal charge, and connects out to punishment, police and International Standard Book Number.
It is catalogued under topics including Criminal procedure, Documents and United States-centric.
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- legal proceeding
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- National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan
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Encyclopedic overview
A criminal charge is a formal accusation made by a governmental authority (usually a public prosecutor or the police) asserting that somebody has committed a crime. A charging document, which contains one or more criminal charges or counts, can take several forms, including:
complaint
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “criminal charge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.