accusatory function
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Definitions from Case Law
United States Supreme Court
The Commission very clearly exercises an accusatory function; it is empowered to be used and allegedly is used to find named individuals guilty of violating the criminal laws of Louisiana and the United States and to brand them as criminals in public.
Defined by the Supreme Court in - Jenkins v. McKeithen, 395 U.S. 411 (1969).