Legal Question in Criminal Law in Virginia
charges on direct indictment
was charged with drug crime. possession with intent, and the charges was null process in district. 10 mths later the charges was brought back up in circuit court and as a direct indictment. what does a direct indictment mean and do they have some type of informant or survillence in case of direct indictment.
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Re: charges on direct indictment
It means that the grand jury has returned a so-called "True Bill", indicting you for the felony of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance and without the prosecutor filing any intervening charges. And, yes, it's quite possible that the grand jury considering the matter heard
from one or more police informants and/or police officers who had conducted surveillance in the case.
Re: charges on direct indictment
A direct indictment is simply a way for the commonwealth to bring the charge directly to circuit court without having a preliminary hearing. In drug cases it is often the case that police have done controlled buys where an informant will purchase narcotics from a subject. It is not the case that there was necessarily any survelliance by the police but there may be video and audio from the buy the informant made.
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