Chapter 10: Pretrial Activities and the Criminal Trial
Across
- 3. term for no contest
- 6. two-sided structure under which American criminal trial courts operate that pits the prosecution against the defense
- 8. term for a court release by promise
- 9. process of negotiating an agreement among the defendant, the prosecutor, and the court as to an appropriate plea and associated sentence in a given case
- 12. term for a jury isolated from the public
- 13. decision of a jury
- 15. court stage at which bail is typically set
- 16. laws that limit the right to bail for certain kinds of offenders
Down
- 1. types of challenges that are limited in number
- 2. oral summation of a case
- 4. act taht establishes the time periods required for a case to be processed by the court system
- 5. oral evidence offered by a sworn witness
- 7. initial statement of an attorney
- 10. type of evidence supplied by eyewitness testimony
- 11. act of lying on the witness stand
- 14. type of evidence requiring interpretation