Courtroom Definitions by Taylor Collins

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  1. 2. A judgment that a person is not guilty of the crime with which the person has been chargedthe trial resulted in an acquittal the women felt their chances of acquittal were poor
  2. 6. An order to appear before a judge or magistrate, or the writ containing ita summons for nonpayment of a parking ticket
  3. 7. examination In a legal trial, the questioning of a witness, while testifying, called by one party's attorney by the attorney opposed to said party; By extension, any process in which a person is subject to questioning
  4. 8. A crime, typically one involving violence, regarded as more serious than a misdemeanor, and usually punishable by imprisonment for more than one year or by death he pleaded guilty to six felonies an accusation of felony
  5. 10. A subpoena (or) is a writ by a government agency, most often a court, that has authority to compel testimony by a witness or production of evidence under a penalty for failure
  6. 12. A judge's order that a case may not be discussed in public
  7. 13. The prosecution of a person twice for the same offense
  8. 15. A lawyer who conducts the case against a defendant in a criminal court. Also called prosecuting attorney
  9. 17. Deals with the rights of accused criminals
  10. 20. Refers to a suspect's constitutional right to an attorney and right against self-incrimination.
  11. 21. A formal charge or accusation of a serious crime an indictment for conspiracy
  12. 22. assault a reckless attack with intent to injure seriously (as with a deadly weapon)
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  1. 1. Law evidence sufficient to warrant for an arrest or a search
  2. 3. the duty of proving a disputed charge
  3. 4. (in a court of law) A person, esp. a man, who presides over a jury and speaks on its behalf
  4. 5. An individual, company, or institution sued or accused in a court of law
  5. 9. A decision on a disputed issue in a civil or criminal case or an inquest the jury returned a verdict of ‘not guilty.’
  6. 11. A preplanned murder
  7. 14. jury a jury that is unable to agree on a verdict (the result is a mistrial)
  8. 16. (of two or more people) Fully in agreement the doctors were unanimous in their diagnoses
  9. 18. Evidence or proof provided by the existence or appearance of somethinghis blackened finger was testimony to the fact that he had played in pain
  10. 19. The offense of willfully telling an untruth in a court after having taken an oath or affirmation