Editing Indictable offence (section)

==United States==
In the United States, federal felonies always require an indictment from a grand jury before proceeding to trial. In contrast, while misdemeanors may proceed to trial on indictment, this is not required, as they may also proceed on information or complaint.<ref>{{cite web |title=Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rule 58, Petty Offenses and Other Misdemeanors, (b)(1) |url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_58#rule_58_b_1 |website=Legal Information Institute |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204035138/https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_58#rule_58_b_1 |archive-date= Feb 4, 2024 }}</ref> Different states have different policies; since the requirement of an indictment by grand jury is not [[Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution#Grand jury|incorporated against the states]], in many states, an indictment is not required for a felony case to proceed. However, some states do still use grand jury indictments for felony-level offenses and may use other terminology. For instance, in [[New Jersey]], whose [[New Jersey Constitution|constitution]] requires all "crimes" to be charged by indictment but allows lesser "offenses" not to be, felony-level offenses are commonly called "indictable offenses", including in the New Jersey Penal Code, to avoid confusion between the narrow technical definition of the word "crime" from the state's constitutional jurisprudence and the broader sense.