Across
- 4. a crime, typically involving violence, regarded as more serious than a misdemeanor, and usually punishable by imprisonment for more than one year or by death.
- 5. disorderly and disruptive and not amenable to discipline or control
- 7. the preliminary screening of complaints by an intake officer to determine whether the court should take some action and if so, what action.
- 9. a person who brings a case against another in a court of law
- 10. the release of an accused person awaiting trial, sometimes on condition that a sum of money be lodged to guarantee their appearance in court.
- 13. a minor wrongdoing
- 14. a place for the confinement of people accused or convicted of a crime.
Down
- 1. choose someone to hold public office or some other position by voting.
- 2. To explain the meaning of
- 3. the official proving of a will
- 6. the system of law concerned with private relations between members of a community rather than criminal, military, or religious affairs
- 8. the formal examination of a cause, civil or criminal, before a judge according to the laws of a particular jurisdiction
- 11. the action of detaining someone or the state of being detained in official custody, especially as a political prisoner
- 12. a formal examination of evidence before a judge, and typically before a jury, in order to decide guilt in a case of criminal or civil proceedings.
- 14. a body of people sworn to give a verdict in a legal case on the basis of evidence submitted to them in court.