Criminal Law Vocab

1. A written statement of facts sworn to or made under oath before someone authorized to administer an oath.
6. The act of restoring something to its owner, either taken or damaged.
7. A grand jury's formal charge or accusation of criminal action.
8. Unlawful taking of another's property with the intent to steal it.
11. Deliberate intent to harm someone.
12. The person who actually commits the crime.
13. Any intentional, unlawful physical contact inflicted on one person by another without consent and with the intent of bodily harm.

1. A person who helps commit a crime but is not present when the crime occurs.
2. An act or failure to act that violates a law and for which there is a set penalty.
3. Money or property put up by the accused to allow release from jail before trial.
4. Imprisonment by the government.
5. To take a person suspected of a crime into custody.
9. An agreement between two or more people to commit a crime, with a some action towards committing the crime.
10. An excuse or plea that a person was somewhere else at the time a crime was committed.