Jessie’s Top Five Indictment Errors
Published for NC Criminal Law on October 20, 2011.
An indictment defect is a boon for the defense and a disaster for the prosecution. Simply put an indictment is defective when it fails to allege an essential element of the crime. Because fatal defects are jurisdictional, they can be raised at any time—at trial, on appeal, or post-conviction—and can never be waived. A closely ... Read more
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