Portuguese term (edited): indiciado em inqu�rito policial

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Portuguese term (edited): indiciado em inqu�rito policial

indited/accused under a police enquiry/investigation


Indite \In*dite"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indited; p. pr. & vb.
n. Inditing.] [OE. enditen to indite, indict, OF. enditer
to indicate, show, dictate, write, inform, and endicter to
accuse; both fr. LL. indictare to show, to accuse, fr. L.
indicere to proclaim, announce; pref. in- in + dicere to say.
The word was influenced also by L. indicare to indicate, and
by dictare to dictate. See Diction, and cf. Indict,
Indicate, Dictate.]


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Indict
(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.

www.brainydictionary.com/words/in/indict177813.html - 12k

Noun 1. enquiry - an instance of questioning; \"there was a question about my training\"; \"we made inquiries of all those who were present\"
Synonyms: query, question, inquiry, interrogation
http://www.webster-dictionary.org/definition/enquiry

Portuguese term (edited): indiciado em inqu�rito policial

I think "indict" could be construed by the US audience as a much more formal step than "indiciado" and it would be more prudent to use something like the above, or, at worst, "accused"

Reading Article 20 of the Brazilian Code of criminal Procedure, I find that the "caput" refers to confidentiality about cases being investigated but the "sole paragraph" says, roughly, that the police MAY NOT MENTION any annotations pertaiing to the institution of an investigation against [people who are requesting a criminal background report] unless they have previously been convicted of a crime.
(Which makes me wonder if only the earlier crime can be mentioned or if, once you are convicted of something, any subsequent investigations of your actions can be mentioned in such a report).