presentment

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The lay panel is to hear testimony, issue a comprehensive report on what happened, and issue a presentment if members believe criminal charges are warranted, he said.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2021

Four other officers who were on the scene and had taken cover did not fire their weapons, according to a grand jury presentment.

From Washington Post • Oct. 9, 2020

“Hopefully," he said, "we can end this with his arrest and presentment before the court.”

From Fox News • May 22, 2019

The votes of at least 12 of the grand jurors are needed to return an indictment or to make a presentment.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016

Increasing complexities, structural and functional, are indispensable to the presentment of the attributes of the higher species, Man.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella