Across
- 2. About ... percent of all felony convictions in the US courts derive from plea negotiations
- 3. A "not guilty" verdict
- 8. According to the jury trial documentary, about a …of individuals who are summoned for jury duty in the US each year report for the duty
- 9. Targeted enforcement policing strategy
- 12. Order by the Department of Justice that offers means to oversee police activity by the federal government
- 15. Component of police subculture; police officers unwilling to turn against each other
- 16. Jurors who sit on a trial but participate in deliberations only as back-up (if one of the regular jurors is prevented from deliberating)
- 17. The standard of proof required in criminal trials is "proof beyond a ..."
- 19. Main function of the criminal courts consisting of determining guilt of defendants charged with crimes
- 20. Jury selection process consisting of systematic questioning of potential jurors to detect biases
Down
- 1. Policing strategy calling for searching people on streets (usually for guns) without a warrant
- 4. During a criminal trial, the jury should only be the ... of facts and the judge is the ... of law
- 5. Racial ... by police is one potential source of racial disproportionality
- 6. A jury that cannot reach the required agreement on a verdict
- 7. Jury arriving at a verdict by disregarding the applicable law, in protest to its perceived unjustness
- 10. The difference in punishment that defendants who do not plead guilty may receive when compared to those who plead guilty
- 11. When all jurors agree on a verdict it means that they arrived at a ... verdict
- 13. The process of negotiation between prosecution and defense in which the prosecutor offers incentives for the defendant to admit guilt
- 14. US State that banned plea negotiation for more than two decades
- 18. Main feature of American trials (opposing parties present competing versions of the truth in front of a neutral arbiter)