What's the difference between indict and indictee?
Indict
Definition:
(v. t.) To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.
(v. t.) To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.
(v. t.) To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to find an indictment against; as, to indict a man for arson. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives to impeach.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was fighting to breathe.” The decision on her father’s case came just 10 days after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, found there was not enough evidence to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager called Michael Brown.
(2) It is concluded that there is no pharmacokinetic indiction for withholding OCs from women with early active schistosomiasis who are concurrently receiving antischistosmal drugs.
(3) He was indicted on weapons charges and accused of plotting robberies and the assassination of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s founder.
(4) Others believe that, despite the fact that some of his closest lieutenants are among those indicted by US authorities, he planned to use the time until the new election to ease a favoured successor into the post.
(5) Gen Pinochet was also under indictment in three cases stemming from the 3,000 people killed and thousands tortured during his regime, when he was feted by Washington as a bulwark against communism.
(6) Judge Morrison intervened: "As you know, Dr Karadzic … it isn't the Serbian people who are indicted in this case, nor the Serbian state.
(7) The raids came after three separate federal indictments in the biggest investigation to date into trade-based drug money laundering, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the US attorney’s office in Los Angeles.
(8) It was quoted in the grand jury indictment, and later a larger portion was included in one of the prosecution’s filings in the case: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Thermal image released by the Massachusetts State Police Air Wing, shows the boat in which Jahar hid.
(9) Some on the right believe it's a damning indictment of the welfare state.
(10) It has been clear for months now that Cuyahoga County prosecutor Timothy McGinty was abusing and manipulating the grand jury process to orchestrate a vote against indictment,” the statement said.
(11) If an indictment were returned, Clay would have to go for trial.
(12) Though things may return to normal, the now official election of Kenyatta, indicted by the international criminal court for committing crimes against humanity five years ago, complicates international diplomatic relationships with Kenya .
(13) But the star – who is better known for divisive wins at awards ceremonies and singing about the merits of charity shop bargains – was one of many hip-hop and urban artists who made their voices heard after the grand jury’s decision to not indict Wilson.
(14) Prosecutors investigating the case have indicted her friend, Choi Soon-sil , and are seeking to question the president about her role in the scandal.
(15) Isn't it a serious indictment of your government's values that while lower and middle income families are being hit, at the same time you are giving an average £107,000 tax cut to people earning over £1m a year?"
(16) Initial postulates indicted an immunological mechanism.
(17) Rybak was indicted for inciting hatred last year after burning an effigy of an orthodox Jew during a protest against Muslim immigration.
(18) "It is an indictment of the failure of his attempts to boost business investment spending that, rather than encouraging a rebalancing of the economy, he now has to resort to policies that will increase its imbalances."
(19) The apogee, for me, is his book Terra Nullius , a 2005 Australia travelogue that indicts Britons and white Australians for terrible abuses such as the transportation of Aborigine women to the chillingly named Isle of the Dead where they were given inappropriate and often fatal syphilis treatment, and the extensive forced separation of "half-blood" children from their families to prison-like camps.
(20) The argument can be made that this meant it was more likely that there would be no indictment,” said Todd Swanstrom, a professor in public policy at the University of Missouri-St Louis.
Indictee
Definition:
(n.) A person indicted.
Example Sentences:
(1) The UK's standard position on ICC indictees is to avoid all contact unless "essential".
(2) International criminal court indictee Uhuru Kenyatta was officially declared the winner of Kenya's presidential election this afternoon, although his rival, Raila Odinga, will not concede defeat and a legal challenge alleging widespread fraud is certain.
(3) Other secret American cables in the 2009-2010 period also focus on Mladić and his fellow Hague indictee, Hadžić, stressing how important their capture is to Serbia's bid to join the European Union.
(4) "Russia has not been forthcoming on Serbia's requests for assistance in locating Hague indictee Mladić, presidential adviser Miki Rakić told us on August 25 [2009]," says the American cable, which has been released by WikiLeaks.
(5) The son of Kenya's founding president allied with a former political rival and fellow ICC indictee to win election in March this year.
(6) Moreno-Ocampo became a celebrity in Kenya, with minibus taxis named after him, but his initial popularity waned, and this was exacerbated by his decision to name Kenyatta and Ruto, political rivals whose supporters had fought during the violence, among the indictees.
(7) Karadžić is indicted by the ICTY for genocide 1996 : Karadžić is forced to step down from the Republika Srpska presidency but continues to wield power behind the scenes 1997 : The manhunt for war crimes indictees begins and Karadžić goes underground 2008 : Karadžić is found in Belgrade posing as a new age guru, Dragan Dabic, and arrested 2009 : His trial for genocide and crimes against humanity begins in The Hague 2014 : Trial ends and tribunal begins considering verdict and sentence in September
(8) The rebel leaders have a legal duty to hand any captured indictees over to the ICC, and the UK should insist that they do so.
(9) In the end, all 161 indictees on the ICTY list faced justice one way or another, many of them tracked down in an unprecedented international manhunt by the west’s combined intelligence agencies and special forces.