Ahmaud Arbery: Is this a strike against Citizen's Arrest, Gun Control, The Legal System, or All?

[Kwak]

The McMichaels have been indicted by a Grand Jury.

Three Men Suspected of Killing Ahmaud Arbery Indicted on Murder Charges

The three men charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who was shot to death as he was jogging in South Georgia in February, have been indicted by a grand jury.

jezebel.com

Does indicted mean found guilty or just given permission for the trial to happen?

 

[Houseman]

Does indicted mean found guilty or just given permission for the trial to happen?

The latter

 

[Gordon_4]

Does indicted mean found guilty or just given permission for the trial to happen?

What Houseman said. Indicted is basically the relevant prosecution body formally pressing charges on behalf of a plaintiff (or the people I suppose in cases where the ostensible plaintiff is dead).

Step 1 of 100 basically.