Trial Terms -- Amanda Raleigh

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Across
  1. 2. prosecuting attorney or a person, as a complainant or chief witness, instigating prosecution in a criminal proceeding.
  2. 4. the subjecting of a person to a second trial or punishment for the same offense for which the person has already been tried or punished.
  3. 6. a call or citation by authority to appear before a court or a judicial officer or the writ by which the call is made.
  4. 7. reasonable ground for a belief, as, in a criminal case, that the accused was guilty of the crime, or, in a civil case, that grounds for the action existed: used especially as a defense to an action for malicious prosecution.
  5. 8. the statement or declaration of a witness under oath or affirmation, usually in court.
  6. 10. Thought out murder.
  7. 13. specific rights that any person who is taken into police custody is entitled to.
  8. 15. judicial deliverance from a criminal charge on a verdict or finding of not guilty.
  9. 17. an offense, as murder or burglary, of graver character than those called misdemeanors, especially those commonly punished in the U.S. by imprisonment for more than a year.
  10. 18. a court order banning reporters, attorneys, and other parties involved in a case before a court of law from reporting on or publicly disclosing anything relating to the case.
  11. 20. a jury that cannot agree on a verdict.
  12. 21. the member of a jury selected to preside over and speak for all the jurors on the panel.
  13. 22. the finding or answer of a jury given to the court concerning a matter submitted to their judgment.
Down
  1. 1. the obligation to offer evidence that the court or jury could reasonably believe, in support of a contention, failing which the case will be lost.
  2. 3. the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
  3. 5. physically attacking another person which results in serious bodily harm and/or is committed with a deadly or dangerous weapon such as a gun, knife, sword, ax or blunt instrument.
  4. 9. deals with the rights of accused criminals by providing for due process of law, forbidding double jeopardy, and stating that no person may be forced to testify as a witness against himself or herself.
  5. 11. to examine (a witness called by the opposing side), as for the purpose of discrediting the witness's testimony.
  6. 12. a person, company, etc., against whom a claim or charge is brought in a court
  7. 14. a formal accusation initiating a criminal case, presented by a grand jury and usually required for felonies and other serious crimes.
  8. 16. of one mind; in complete agreement; agreed.
  9. 19. the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry.