criminal complaints
Official prosecution documents
A criminal complaint is a formal document filed with a court alleging that a person has committed a crime, initiating the prosecution process.
Unlike civil complaints between private parties, criminal complaints are typically filed by prosecutors or law enforcement: The district attorney filed a criminal complaint charging him with assault.
The complaint must establish probable cause that the accused committed the offense.
- chargesAmounts owed or alleged
- formal chargesOfficial criminal accusations filed
- press chargesFormally accuse someone criminally
- allegationsUnproven formal claims
- indictmentFormal charge from jury
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- criminal recordsarrest records, rap sheet, rap sheets, convictions, felonies
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Non-criminal court proceedings
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criminal complaintsacquittals
Verdicts freeing defendants
exonerations · pardons · expungements · dropped charges · vindications
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