Criminal Law & Procedures
Across
- 1. disprove, justify, or excuse the alleged crime.
- 8. Offenses committed in the business world typically are referred to as white-collar crimes
- 9. law and imposed by a court
- 10. for one year or less, by a fine of $1,000 or less, or both.
- 11. A punishable offense against society
- 15. is the use of the force that appears to be reasonably necessary to the victim to pre-
- 18. Are based on problems with
- 19. death, serious bodily harm, rape, or kidnapping.
Down
- 2. freedom from prosecution even
- 3. way evidence is obtained or the way an accused person is arrested, questioned, tried, or punished.
- 4. a crime punishable by confinement for more than a year in a state prison or by a fine of more than $1,000, or both—or even death.
- 5. one has committed the crime charged.
- 6. a less serious crime in exchange for having a
- 7. a reasonable ground for belief
- 11. is action that hinders the administration of justice.
- 12. a less serious crime. It usually is punishable by confinement in a county or city
- 13. serious charge dropped
- 14. An accused person may agree to plead guilty
- 16. Any penalty provided
- 17. a legal position taken by an accused to defeat the charges against him or her.