Court Case Vocab
Across
- 9. Court order preventing parties from taking actions
- 11. Group of people who decide if a person is guilty or not guilty
- 12. Official decision by the court
- 14. Serious crime
- 16. Final decision on a civil or criminal case
- 17. When a criminal defendant pleads guilty or not guilty
- 19. Lawyer
- 20. Person being accused
- 21. An invalid trial (errors caused the trial to be thrown out)
- 22. A formal statement, sometimes with evidence, given to the court
Down
- 1. Hearing in which the defendant pleads guilty or not guilty
- 2. When one party sues another party
- 3. When a criminal defendant is found guilty
- 4. Defendant is found not guilty
- 5. Official of the judicial branch
- 6. One party requests a higher court review the decision
- 7. Proof
- 8. A court’s command to give testimony
- 10. To charge someone with a crime
- 11. Legal authority
- 13. Punishment the court gives to the person convicted of the crime
- 15. Property
- 17. Person who brings a lawsuit against another
- 18. Prior to the trial, money paid to remain out of jail……
- 23. Minor crime