Legal Vocab - Part 2
Across
- 3. The act or process of admitting (into evidence) a party's acknowledgement that a fact or statement is true
- 4. A person who commits criminal assault
- 5. Accomplice to a crime, a person is not constructively present but with criminal intent contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of a felony
- 6. A formal charge of wrong-doing
- 8. To diminish or reduce in scope
- 9. To address, call into account:to bring a defendant before a judge to hear the charges and to plead wither guilty or not guilty
- 10. One who intentionally and voluntarily participates with another in a crime by encouraging or assisting in the commission of a crime or by failing to prevent
- 11. Previously in mind:premeditated
- 12. An act of clemency by an authority (as a government) by which a pardon is granted.
- 13. Careful consideration, the act of process of advising
Down
- 1. To put off further proceedings of either indefinitely or until a later stated time
- 2. "Attack": The crime or tort of threatening or attempting to inflict immediate offensive physical contact or bodily harm that one has the present ability to inflict
- 4. A criminal assault committed with the intent to commit another specific crime
- 5. To set free or release from some obligation or responsibility
- 7. of Consent The age at which a person is deemed competent by law to give consent
- 10. A person who has been arrested for or formally charged with a crime such as the defendant in a criminal case
- 12. Opposed to one's interest; operating to ones detriment